yeah I know you did not ask!
You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
If Homo sapiens have a lingua franca, it is mathematics. Unfortunately, most of us only speak it at the most basic of levels, pidgin English, if you will. At least sitting here in the United States. I have the impression that math is emphasized more in other countries, much like second and third languages are more common outside our borders.
I could not stand it, so I looked up our ranking…