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Is an English translation of Grothendieck's EGA available?
Yes, ish. There is a community effort (https://github.com/ryankeleti/ega) to translate the EGA into English. I’m posting this now because we’ve just finished EGA I, and around 30% of the combined EGA ...
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English translation of Borel-Serre, Le théorème de Riemann-Roch?
I have just finished this translation! Here is the TeX source, and here is a (live) PDF. Hopefully there shouldn't be too many mistakes :-)
Edit: due to moving links, it's probably best if I just ...
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Where to seek translations of research articles
Elsevier offers a translation service at a rate of € 0.22 per word for a German to English translation. They promise that the translation will be at the level suitable for publication in one of ...
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Papers of the masters translated to English in one location
Most of the famous 19th century mathematicians have their collected works published and some of them have been digitized. But they are all in the original language. Translations into English are rare. ...
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What is the translation of this ancient Greek verb πυθαγοριζει
The verb is πυθαγορίζω (infinitive πυθαγορίζειν), formed by adding the derivative suffix -ιζω to the name of Pythagoras (Πυθαγόρας). So it just means "to be [or, in the context you quote, presumably, ...
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Translation of "The joy of learning" by Hironaka
It seems like that there is no such translation. Moreover, the essay you linked and the book you linked are different material, although they have the same title.
I searched the book whose author is ...
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Asking for an English version of Aleksandrov's famous 1939 paper in Convex Geometry
This paper is contained in the 1-st volume of Aleksandrov's Selected works. This has an English translation:
Alexandrov, A. D.
Reshetnyak, Yu. G. (ed.)
Selected works. Part 1: Selected scientific ...
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English translation of “A multidimensional generalization of the Wronskian”
The solution to the mystery of how A. I. Petrov wrote a paper in 1964, when he was a student writing what appears to be his first paper in 1971, is that mathnet.ru has mistakenly taken his name to be ...
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Is there a translation to English of Serre's GAGA?
Okay, on the internet archive I've found this (the file is .dvi, I converted it to pdf here). This translation was uploaded to the no longer existing personal webpage of Trevor Arnold at the McMaster ...
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Where to find English translation of Pansu's paper from Ann. Math?
You can access the paper here:
P. Pansu, Carnot-Carathéodory metrics and quasi-isometries of rank-one symmetric spaces Ann. of Math. (2) 129 (1989), no. 1, 1–60. (English translation).
Or here.
Let me ...
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English translation of “A multidimensional generalization of the Wronskian”
A type of generalized Wronskian is used for the induction step in the proof of Roth's theorem in Diophantine approximation. There's a nice exposition in Schmidt's lecture note, for example, but ...
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English translation of Hilbert's work
Yes, there is a translation, but not an official one and only of the "Erste Mitteilung", not the whole book: The pdf
FREDHOLM, HILBERT, SCHMIDT
Three Fundamental Papers on
Integral Equations,
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English translation of Wilhelm Killing's 1889 paper
This paper has been translated by David Delphenich under the title of "The composition of continuous, finite, transformation groups" (see here).
[Note that the paper's date is given as 1869 ...
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Paul Mahlo's original large cardinal paper
Just to show what to expect from a machine translation, I spent a little time on two paragraphs of the 1924 Mahlo paper, which I OCR'd and passed to Google Translate. With all the formulas it requires ...
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Where to seek translations of research articles
Like you, I struggle to decipher articles in German. The older influential articles (before 1980) were all translated in Russian by top Russian mathematicians . If you can read Russian I highly ...
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English translation of Hilbert's work
this 2014 overview lists the known translations in English of Hilbert's books, the 1912 book in the OP is not among them:
Grundlagen der Geometrie (1899) -- The Foundations of Geometry (1902)
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Books you would like to see translated into English
Weber's Lehrbuch der algebra, though I see this math underflow post that already expresses this wish: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/438643/translation-of-webers-lehrbuch-der-algebra-vol-1-2-...
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English translation of "Les aspects probabilistes du contrôle stochastique"
There is no English translation of El Karoui's lecture notes, however her work on Snell envelopes is described in Reflected Solutions of Backward SDE'S, and Related Obstacle Problems for PDE's. For a ...
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English translation of a Russian paper by Gordin and Lifšic
This journal was transllated into English as
Soviet Mathematics. Doklady Many US libraries subscribed it.
If you have access to a university library, and it does not have it, use ILL.
Here is the ...
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Translation to English of Brillouin's analysis of Airy's integral
The poor quality of Google translate seems to be entirely due to the poor quality of the OCR in the linked pdf file. I cleaned up the OCR and then the first two pages are translated as follows by ...
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What English translations are there of work done by the Italian school of algebraic geometry?
Here is a complete bibliography. It includes translations, but not in English (many in French, German, and Spanish).
From this bibliography I notice that only Guido Fubini and Beniamino Segre ...
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Is there an English translation of Hadamard's classic French paper on well-posed problems?
No, there is no "official" English translation, however, Google translate should work just fine, here is the translation of the first paragraph, without any corrections from my side:
The general ...
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Translation reference for Grothendieck's early works
I have a translation of "Résumé des résultats essentiels dans la théorie des produits tensoriels topologiques et des espaces nucléaires", which is Grothendieck's "short" summary of ...
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English reference for the Brauer-Kuroda formula
See Section VIII.7 in Fröhlich-Taylor, Algebraic Number Theory, Cambridge University Press.
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Papers of the masters translated to English in one location
Quite a few of Euler's papers are available in translation here: https://arxiv.org/search/?query=euler_l&searchtype=author&source=header
In the original, along with many translations, they are ...
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Papers of the masters translated to English in one location
As the many answers already make clear, there is not one dedicated source that collects or archives the work of all the masters. Of course, from your question you get a vague understanding what you ...
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What did Yu Jianchun discover about Carmichael numbers?
On page 136 of Cai Tianxin, The Book of Numbers, it says,
In 2015 the Chinese amateur, Jianchun Yu, who was then a packer in a bookstore warehouse in Hangzhou found that all the numbers like $(6k+1)...
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Books you would like to see translated into English
I would really love a translation of the third russian edition of "Number Theory" by Borevich and Shafarevich. It has updated notation, revised errata and has numerous new remarks and updated ...
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Books you would like to see translated into English
I hope I did not miss that in one of the previous answers, but a book worthy of an English translation is "Théorie des distributions" by Laurent Schwartz. The later edition combined Vol I ...
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