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Book/tutorial recommendations: acquiring math-oriented reading proficiency in German

I'm interested in others' suggestions/recommendations for resources to help me acquire reading proficiency (of current math literature, as well as classic math texts) in German. I realize that German has evolved as a language, so ideally, the…
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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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German Analysis Texts

My question is somewhat related to this one but is somewhat more specific. Since a lot of good mathematics is written in German, I have decided to start developing my German reading abilities. So far, my basic strategy has been to come upon some…
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What does the German word "Zerlegungsautomorphismus" translate to?

I would like to know if any of our German friends can translate that word for me. Zerlegung is factorisation, isn't it? So what is factorisation automorphism? This is taken from Deuring's paper “Die Zetafunktion einer algebraischen Kurve vom…
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"Abuse of notation" in German

How do you express the common phrases "by an abuse of notation", "abusing the notation", etc. in German without invoking negative connotations? (Without this addendum, I'd have asked at german.se.) "Durch/Unter Missbrauch der Schreibweise/Notation"…
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Reading mathematical formulas in Russian & German

The book Russian for Mathematicians by Glazunova has a very useful section with examples of how formulas are read in Russian. (Most mathematical dictionaries don't seem to have this, as I suppose they expect you to read formulas in your own…
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Translation of the statements of theorems presented in a German paper of Gaschütz

I would appreciate some help in translating the statements of the theorems contained in the following paper of Gaschütz on the Frattini subgroup: "Über die $\Phi$-Untergruppe endlicher Gruppen". Many thanks and I'm willing to offer compensation for…
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Translation of an old paper by Frobenius

I have an old paper: Frobenius, G. (1902). Uber primitive Gruppen des Grades $n$ und der Klasse $n - 1$. S. B. Akad. Berlin 1902, 455-459. in the German language. Is there a way to access a translation of it? Or other proof in the English books or…
Human Learning
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Translate a German paper by Hilbert

Please translate Hilbert's paper Ein Beitrag zur Theorie des Legendre'schen Polynoms. I cannot find an existing translation for it. Thanks:)
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in the unit circle, names of the various points depending on the angle at the origin

I found this image on German wikipedia, naming points related to the unit circle with letters. Most makes sense, like S for Sine, C for Cosine, O for Origin, P for Point, T for Tangent, and K for Cotangent (in German it is Kotangens, and C is taken…
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Understanding Peter Engel's space-filling tricontaoctahedron: What is the notation for these bounding planes?

In Peter Engel's 1991 paper Über Wirkungsbereichsteilungen von kubischer Symmetrie, a 38-sided convex polyhedron is described which apparently can tile space. I'm interested in better understanding this polyhedron and how it fits together with…
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Die Relationen, welche zwischen den elementaren symmetrischen Functionen bestehen - Translation?

I am trying to find a translation of this paper either in English or French (preferably English). I am not very optimistic, but i thought of asking in case somebody is more resourceful :)
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English translation of von Neumann's "Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele", 1928

Some colleagues and I are reading various classic papers. We would like to read von Neumann's "Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele", 1928, but do not read German. Do you know of an English translation, or perhaps another paper/book chapter by von…
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Translation of a German paper

I'd like to have a translation (in English) of a paper of Klaus Doerk published in Journal of Algebra: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021869384711999 It is 4,5 pages long with little mathematical notation and I am prepared to pay…
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German for “contiguous simplicial maps”

Is there an established German word for “contiguous” in the sense of contiguous simplicial maps? Background Definition. Two simplicial maps $f$ and $g$ from $\mathcal K$ to $\mathcal L$ are called contiguous, if whenever $S$ is the set of vertices…
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