This is an ongoing project, started in summer 2014, with the aim of providing bilingual mathematics dictionaries which translate (without definition) mathematical terms which may be assumed knowledge in higher education in English.
Below you can view and download the content so far produced but right now we need proofreaders and translators for all languages except for Welsh!
As part of the project a list of non-English mathematical terminology in common use in the UK, as well as some acronyms, was also collated. This will be useful for all students.
Are you bilingual? Were you taught mathematics to age 18 in a language other than English? Have you completed at least 2 years of a mathematics or statistics degree taught in English or are now teaching mathematics in English? If you can answer yes to all these questions please fill in our form to request to be a proofreader.
If you are bilingual and have learnt mathematics in both languages at some point then you can volunteer as a translator! You can translate as little as a single word, it all helps and you can get started straight away. All your translations will be checked by a proofreader once one has been found for the language in question. Only proofread translations will be published.
Please use our project e-mail address to get in touch about this work: mash-lang@bath.ac.uk. The basic set of terms was selected for translation by students bilingual in English and Welsh. Their aim was to collate the mathematical terms which may be assumed knowledge in higher education. We might have missed some! The set of languages below was selected, rather arbitrarily, based on the percentage of speakers in the EU population. Finally, you might know of a resource that already incorporates some or all of the translations we are looking for in a language. We can add terms, 'rarer' languages and links to resources if we hear from you. Please get in touch if:
The suggested resources column will be populated by resources suggested to us that translate some or all basic mathematical terminology for the target language.
The International Statistical Institute has a Multilingual Glossary of Statistical Terms which can be used to verify some target terms and also includes a wider vocabulary of specialised statistical terms in a variety of languages.
Language (Local) | Language (English) | Word format | Basic word set | Status | Suggested resources |
Български | Bulgarian | Bulgarian (Word) Bulgarian (ODT) |
Proofreader required! Can you help? |
Translation nearly complete Can you help? |
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Česky | Czech | Czech (Word) Czech (ODT) |
Proofreader available | Translators required | |
Cymraeg | Welsh | Welsh (Word) Welsh (ODT) |
Available! | Complete! | Welsh resources: MathCentre |
Deutsch | German | German (Word) German (ODT) |
Proofreader available | Translation started Can you help? |
Probably all terms: LEO |
Eesti | Estonian | Estonian (Word) Estonian (ODT) |
Proofreader required | Translation started Can you help? |
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Ελληνικά | Greek | Greek (Word) Greek (ODT) |
Available! | Complete! | |
Español | Spanish | Spanish (Word) Spanish (ODT) |
Proofreader required | Translation started Can you help? |
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Français | French | French (Word) French (ODT) |
Proofreader required | Translation well underway Can you help? |
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Gaeilge | Irish | Irish (Word) Irish (ODT) |
Proofreader required | Translators required | Probably all terms: Science/Maths dictionary |
Hrvatski | Croatian | Croatian (Word) Croatian (ODT) |
Proofreader required | Translation started Can you help? |
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Italiano | Italian | Italian (Word) Italian (ODT) |
Proofreader required Can you help? |
Translation complete! | |
한국어 | Korean | Korean (Word) Korean (ODT) |
Proofreader available | Translators required | |
Lietuvių | Lithuanian | Lithuanian (Word) Lithuanian (ODT) |
Proofreader required | Translation well underway Can you help? |
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Português | Portuguese | Portuguese (Word) Portuguese (ODT) |
Proofreader required | Translation started Can you help? |
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Svenska | Swedish | Swedish (Word) Swedish (ODT) |
Proofreader required | Translation started Can you help? |
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中文 | Chinese | Chinese (Word) Chinese (ODT) |
Partially available! Proofreading underway |
Translation completed | |
Türkçe | Turkish | Turkish (Word) Turkish (ODT) |
Proofreader required | Translation started Can you help? |
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العربية | Arabic | Arabic (Word) Arabic (ODT) |
Proofreader required | Translators required | |
Dansk | Danish | (Word) (ODT) |
Proofreader required | Translators required | |
Suomi | Finnish | Finnish (Word) Finnish (ODT) |
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Gàidhlig | Scottish Gaelic | Scottish Gaelic (Word) Scottish Gaelic (ODT) |
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हिन्दी | Hindi | Hindi (Word) Hindi (ODT) |
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Magyar | Hungarian | Hungarian (Word) Hungarian (ODT) |
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日本語 | Japanese | Japanese (Word) Japanese (ODT) |
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Latviešu | Latvian | Latvian (Word) Latvian (ODT) |
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bil-Malti | Maltese | Maltese (Word) Maltese (ODT) |
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Nederlands | Dutch | Dutch (Word) Dutch (ODT) |
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Polski | Polish | Polish (Word) Polish (ODT) |
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Română | Romanian | Romanian (Word) Romanian (ODT) |
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Русский | Russian | Russian (Word) Russian (ODT) |
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Slovenčina | Slovak | Slovak (Word) Slovak (ODT) |
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Slovenščina | Slovenian | Slovenian (Word) Slovenian (ODT) |
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தமிழ் | Tamil | Tamil (Word) Tamil (ODT) |
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اردو | Urdu | Urdu (Word) Urdu (ODT) |
Proofreader required | Translators required |