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What is the crime of lèse-Bourbaki?

In the foreword to his textbook Algebra , Serge Lang writes (on page vi) I have frequently committed the crime of lèse-Bourbaki by repeating short arguments or definitions to make certain sections or chapters logically independent of each other.…
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How do French mathematicians write ordered pairs, since they already use the comma as a decimal separator?

This is blatantly a terminology question, but it's bugging me. If a comma is used in French to separate the one's and tenth's place, e.g. $5/4=1,\!25$ , how do you write the ordered pair $(5/4,6)$ ? Surely $(1,25,6)$ is ambiguous since it could be…
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Mathematics in Other Languages

The intention of this community wiki is to aid in learning another language in the restricted topic of mathematics. It does matter whether one wants to learn another language for mathematics or use mathematics as a stepping stone into another…
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Roots of polynomials with bounded integer coefficients

For $a\in\mathbb N$ , let $R_a\subseteq\mathbb{R}$ be the set of real roots of polynomials whose coefficients are integers with absolute value at most $a$ . $$R_a=\left\{r\in\mathbb{R}\middle|\sum_{i=0}^na_ir^i=0,n\in\mathbb N,a_i\in\mathbb…
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Translation of John Nash's 1962 Navier-Stokes paper

Is anyone aware of an English translation of the following paper of John Nash? John Nash, Le Probleme de Cauchy pour les equations differentielles d'un fluide general , Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France, tome 90 (1962), p. 487-497.
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What is the gender of $K(\pi,n)$ in French?

This is a kind of silly question, but I don't know where else to ask. Suppose I wanted to say "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" but with $K(\pi,n)$ substituted for "pipe." Would the article be "un" or "une"? In case there are additional complications in the…
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how do we make the distinction between fibers and stalks in French?

In English, if we speak of the stalk of a locally free $\mathcal{O}_X$-module (say), we mean its stalk as a sheaf. If we speak of the fiber, we mean the same thing after killing the maximal ideal. I remember confusing these two things when I was…
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Old French papers which haven't been translated into English

So I've been studying French for a few years now and I've decided that translating an old French math paper into English would be a good exercise to further improve my French competency. I would also like to translate a paper that hasn't already…
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Is there any difference in mathematical notations between French and English?

I studied Mathematics mainly in French and now I am going to write research articles in English. I would like to know if there are some important differences in mathematical notations between French and English . For instance, I noticed that the…
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Mathematics in French

I am pretty good at Français. But I learned mathematics in English. Trying to translate mathematical statements from English to French can often be accompanied with many errors because the way mathematical statements are expressed is very different…
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Translating a passage of a paper by L. Bérard Bergery

I am currently studying the following paper on Einstein manifolds: L. Bérard Bergery, Sur de nouvelles variétés riemanniennes d'Einstein , Inst. Elie Cartan, Univ. Nancy №6, 1-60 (1983). I have doubts that my translation of the following sentence is…
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French translation of "well-powered" category

In order to write a report, I'm looking for a French translation of the term "well-powered category". Does anyone know the canonical term in French?
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Slice and comma categories in French

I have to give a presentation in French on category theory, and most of the literature I use is in English. This is not too much of a problem since most of the terms translate fairly easily. However, I am not sure how to translate "comma category"…
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L'Hôpital or L'Hospital?

This may be a stupid question but I just want clarification about the use of the name of this rule. Well, most of the time what I see is L'Hospital's Rule , like in Baby Rudin and many other places. Occasionally, though, I do see what seems to be…
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Translation of a paper of John Tate

I'm just wondering if anyone knows if the paper "Classes d'isogenie des varietes abeliennes sur un corps fini" by John Tate has been translated into English. My French is not that good and I found it hard to try and translate it at the same time as…
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