Timeline for Math French Words
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| Aug 16, 2016 at 13:13 | comment | added | Deane Yang | Another possible approach is first read a paper or book about math you already know. | |
| Aug 16, 2016 at 8:33 | comment | added | Robert Furber | It is important to note that "ignore" and "expose" do not have the same meaning as they do in English. In particular, I find expose quite difficult to translate. Also, "croissant" means "increasing". | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 20:45 | answer | added | Joël | timeline score: 16 | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 19:01 | answer | added | Sylvain JULIEN | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 22:42 | vote | accept | Sina | ||
| Dec 30, 2012 at 20:18 | comment | added | Thomas Sauvaget | A useful book in that regard is the bilingual edition of the Grothendieck-Serre correspondence (from 1956-1964): lots of typical french sentences, and technical math words, translated carefully side by side. A few more recent technical words are thus missing, to be found online. The book is edited by the AMS, and a preview is here books.google.fr/… | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 16:12 | comment | added | Lee Mosher | As said by Joel, your linguistic background is important. If your background is english or german, I would say that a standard french dictionary from a bookstore is sufficient, because the mathematical vocabulary is really very similar and for the words that are not so similar one can usually puzzle it out from a standard dictionary. Reading Bourbaki in this manner is an excellent way to learn mathematical French. That's how I learned it, anyway, although I must admit that it was not good enough for passing my French language exam at Princeton on the first try...... | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 16:05 | answer | added | Ricky | timeline score: 31 | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 14:37 | comment | added | user30180 | Get French and English copies of the same edition of some book on an algebraic geometry topic (use the Internet or a library) and go through both books with a dictionary at your side to make your own list of French algebraic geometry technical words and key ordinary French words arising in math discussion ("either...or", "if...then...", "Let", etc.) that don't look very similar to their English counterparts. Such a list is shorter than you might imagine, and so is a practical way to acquire the skill you seek. | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 13:42 | comment | added | user9072 | @Joël: This site is not a good place for creating and in particular maintaining something like this. | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 13:38 | comment | added | user9072 | For a start see for example here math.unicaen.fr/~reyssat/dico/dicofa.html . A general method I find helpful is via wikipedia; for somewhat standard things it works quite well: go to the page of the object or related one and then change the language. | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 13:18 | comment | added | Joël | Otherwise, for a more limited answer, it would be helpful, Sina, if you could tell us more about the type of words that are problematic. Depending on for linguistically background, they may be very different. Are you a native english speaker? do you know Latin? Greek? | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 13:16 | comment | added | Joël | I don't know of any such references. I wonder if this site could not be a very good place to collectively produce a lexicon with a list of french words and their english translations (and comments that are helpful, for example to signal slightly different uses, or tricks to remember the translations). Their should be just one answer, of course in community wiki, and each user would edit it to add words at their right place for the alphabetic order. | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 12:59 | history | asked | Sina | CC BY-SA 3.0 |