On: Lomuto's Comeback

[bachmeier]

Off topic: Is it common practice for a dissertation at a German university to be written in English?

[kkaefer → bachmeier]

Depends on the field, but it is very common in computer science and generally in natural sciences. Studying computer science, I don’t think I ever even wrote as much as a paper in German; everything’s English.

[DaiPlusPlus → bachmeier]

Yes - to ensure the widest possible audience. English is the lingua-franca of academia and has been for almost a century now.

[kleiba → DaiPlusPlus]

At least in MINT fields, probably less so in the humanities. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[atq2119 → kleiba]

You're right. German economics is famously insular, for example. Part of that is cultural, part of it is that they don't write as much in English.

[ggrrhh_ta → bachmeier]

It is also common in many fields in Switzerland, Italy, Spain, ... Newton's Principia was written in Latin, for example and not in 18th century English.

[cozzyd → bachmeier]

In physics it certainly is. As far as I know, much all scientific conferences and journals are in English these days. Even journals like JETP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Experimental_and_Th...) became joint English and Russian in the 50's!

[kleiba → bachmeier]

Hardly anyone is going to read, let alone cite your work if you were to publish in German. I'm not even aware of any German-speaking conferences.