Recently, a Russian language teacher was very pleased with his statement:
Russian is not mathematics for you. You have to be able to think, to think! In some physics, just learn the formula and put it into the same type of problems, in Russian this will not work.
I immediately thought of a series called The Theory of the Great Syntax, which would include a philologist-theorist, an experimental philologist, a linguist, a translator and a neighboring engineer.