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mturmonyesterday at 11:39 PM0 repliesview on HN

Totally! If you haven't burrowed in the stacks as a grad student, you missed out.

The real challenges there aren't the "biggies" above, though, it's the ones in obscure journals you have to get copies of by inter-library agreements. My PhD was in applied probability and I was always happy if there were enough equations so that I could parse out the French or Russian-language explanation nearby.