Questions tagged [translations]
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What is Cardano trying to say in this passage of his Ars Magna Arithmeticæ?
It is well known that Cardano considered the problem of "dividing 10
into two parts the product of which is 40" in his Ars Magna. This problems leads to the complex solutions $5+ \sqrt{-15}$ ...
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Have all of Euler's works been translated?
I am interested in reading Euler's works.
The Euler Archive contains some translated works but not all of them. I am just checking here to see if anyone know a complete translation of all of Euler's ...
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Is there a complete translation of "Arithmetices principia" by Peano?
If I understand correctly, Arithmetices principia: nova methodo exposita is one of the most important works covering the axiomatisation of arithmetic.
I was surprised that no translation into English (...
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Is there a translation of Kronecker's original work on adjoining a root of a polynomial to a field?
I would be interested in reading how Kronecker formally approached this construction, using the mathematical ideas of his time, and possibly some insight as to what he considered its philosophical ...
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Is there a translation to Lagrange's Réflexions sur la résolution algébrique des équations?
I was interested in reading his work, but I couldn't find a translation in google, is there any? I can understand Spanish and English
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Collatz letter to Professor Mays
According to a translation of the letter of Collatz to Professor Mays in 1980, Collatz mentions that he hasn't figured out whether the number n = 80 resulted in a cycle or not, concerning the collatz ...
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Is there any English translation of this Gergonne paper?
This is the paper:
“Variétés. Essai de dialectique rationnelle”. Annales de Mathématiques pures et appliquées, tome 7 (1816-1817), p. 189-228
(“Varieties. Essay about rational dialectic”, By J.D. ...
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Beltrami's Essay on the Interpretation of non-Euclidean Geometry
I am reading the Essay of the title written by Beltrami in Italian and I found a specific point of the essay which in my opinion could be fully clarified only if compared with its translations. At the ...
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Is there an English translation of Newton’s De Analysi?
I’m looking for an English translation of Newton’s De analysi. (Alas, my Latin is weak.) I’m rather dismayed by the fact that I can’t appear to find one. How is it possible that one of the most ...
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An English translation of Simon Stevin's De Thiende
I enjoy reading manuscripts written by mathematicians of old, and I would love to read the famous De Thiende by Simon Steven. I've done some research online here and there, but I have not found any ...
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English translation of Xu Yue's Shushu Jiyi?
Is there an english translation of Xu Yue's Shushu Jiyi? This is the work, around 190 CE, often described as containing the first description of the abacus. It is often associated with China's "...
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Are there commented English translations of Pappus's works on conics?
I'm investigating the conics in ancient Greece, I have the works of Apollonius, Diocles and Euclid, written with great commentary (both explaining the math and the historical context) that make them ...
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Translations of "Sur le théorème de Zorn"?
Are there any translations of the following into English, German, or Russian?
Nicolas Bourbaki, Sur le théorème de Zorn, Archiv der Mathematik, Volume 2, pages 434–437, November 1949.
Any help is ...
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An English translation of Cauchy's "Cours d'Analyse"
I am quite interested in the origins of our modern way of understanding analysis. I know that Augustin-Louis Cauchy was one of the pioneers regarding a rigorous foundation towards real and complex ...
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Help translate from German a quote by Hermann Weyl in Space Time Matter
I would like to find an accurate translation to the following quote from Space Time Matter:
Man muß gegen diese Orgien des Formalismus, mit dem man heute sogar die Techniker zu belästigen beginnt, ...
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Does an English translation of Bombelli's L'Algebra exist?
I'm looking for an English translation of Rafael Bombelli's L'Algebra. From what I can tell after having searched the usual corners of the web, it doesn't exist, but I'm asking here just in case.
I'...
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English translation of Heisenberg's papers
Strangely, many of Heisenberg's very important scientific papers are not translated into English.
For example, this one seems not to have been translated.
Where can I get the translated ones?
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English translation of Parisian Alfonsine tables (the 1400s)
I'm interested in an English translation of the Alfonsine tables published in Paris in the 1400s. I know there is an English translation of what survived of earlier Alfonsine tables from Castile, but ...
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Is there any complete works of Abel, Lagrange, Jacobi and Gauss translated into English?
Is there any source which has the complete works of Abel, Lagrange, Jacobi and Gauss which has been translated into English? I'm asking for separate books for these mathematicians not necessarily a ...
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Any modern translations of famous math papers?
I was curious to know if there are any resources similar to Early Modern Texts?
What the author of the site has done is taken older and also famous philosophy papers and translated them with more ...
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Translations of Luca Pacioli's Summa de arithmetica
Are there any English language (or perhaps German, Dutch or French, but preferably English) translations of Luca Pacioli's 1494 (or later edition) "Summa de arithmetica"? They do not have to ...
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How did Planck derive the black body radiation formula without using the Bose statistics?
It is so funny that science never develops as in the textbooks. Bose only introduced his statistics in 1924, so Planck could not possibly have used it to derive the radiation formula in 1900. So how ...
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The debauch of indices: translation request
Finally I found the source of the dictum "debauches of indices". It is most often used in singular ""debauch", as in Spivaks's Vol.II p.211. The original is from the first ...
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Jordan called isomorphisms (iso.) and homomorphisms "iso. holoedriques" and "iso. meriedriques" respectively; translation of holoe/meried-driques?
Stillwell mentions in his Elements of Algebra:
The first to use the term "isomorphism" was Jordan, in his Traite des Substitutions [1870], the first textbook on group theory...Jordan used the word "...
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Where can I find the translated manuscript of Abel?
I am looking for the translated manuscript of Abel where he proved the unsolvability of the quintic. Can anyone give me a pointer? I tried Google, but nothing came up.
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How did Saint Vincent prove the logarithmic property of areas under hyperbolas?
How did Saint Vincent prove that if $\frac{a}{b} = \frac{c}{d}$, then the area of a hyperbola $y = \frac{1}{x}$ from $a$ to $b$ equals the area from $c$ to $d$? What references (pdfs, links, books) ...
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Are Brillouin's papers translated into English?
I mean the Brillouin in the WKB method. I want to read his original paper. But it is in French. Is it translated into English? It should be.
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English translation of Omar Khayyám's mathematical work
Is there any current English translation of the mathematical works of Omar Khayyám?
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Is there a translation of Gauss' work on Gaussian integers?
Gauss introduced the Gaussian integers in an 1832 Latin work named Theoria residuorum biquadraticorum. I believe there is a German translation available. Is there an English, or possibly French ...
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