I'm looking for opinions from people who are bilingual and have actually done this themselves. (Not sure what to tag this under?)
So I've been learning German for a few years in school and I even had a foreign exchange student. She was very fluent in English (me less so in German) but the one thing that we definitely couldn't connect on was math. We both understood the same concepts, but we used different symbols and names for everything. It was interesting to see how she had been taught the same ideas differently and how she had a different perspective on certain topics.
Now I know the basics (numbers, basic operators, etc), but I've been looking into learning heavier mathematical German. Considering many of the names that I can think of probably wrote in German--ie Riemann, Gauss, Hilbert, Goldbach, Leibniz, Klein, Cantor, (I think even Euler for some of his work, even though he was Swiss), it's likely subtleties got lost in translation. I think it could be interesting to read what Leibniz originally wrote about calculus, for example.
So my question is: as I get into higher math, is it worth it to learn enough German to read the papers in their original languages? What are some differences, if any, in the translations?