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# Disputatio:Algebra

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## [recensere] Rename Proposal

On the advice of Iustinus, I am proposing that we rename this page from Algebraica to simply Algebra. The former should be an adjective, the latter a noun.

Any objections?

## [recensere] Translations

I need to figure out good translations for the following

- Group - it must be distinct from set. It's basically a set with an addition operator defined on it that satisfies a few sensible properties.

- - sugg. Group = caterva, Set = collectio?

- Ring - I'm not sure what the motivation was for calling this a "ring" in English. There is nothing I know of more "circular" about it than with other algebraic structures. It's basically a group with multiplication.
- Field - These are kind of like well-behaved rings; and yet not quite so pleasant as to conjure an image of a field full of flowers.

- - From a previous version of the en:Ring article: "The term ring (Zahlring) was coined by David Hilbert in the article Die Theorie der algebraischen Zahlkörper, Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker Vereiningung, Vol. 4, 1897." Apparently it had to do with some cyclical structure (a finite ideal?). Fields were originally called "Körper" in German, meaning "body". In French and Portuguese it is "corps" and "corpo" also meaning "body". I guess it would be "corpus" in Latin.

  OK, if you look at the interwikis at the relevant English articles, it quickly becomes clear that "field" should be corpus and "ring" should be anellus. --Iustinus 17:42 aug 18, 2005 (UTC)

> Continuing: "group" and "set" are, however, much more difficult:

> - ca: Grup
> - da: Gruppe
> - de: Gruppentheorie
> - es: Grupo
> - eo: Grupo
> - fi: Ryhmä
> - fr: Groupe
> - ko: 군론
> - id: Grup
> - it: Gruppo
> - he: חבורה
> - hu: Csoport
> - nl: Groep
> - ja: 群論
> - no: Gruppe
> - pl: Grupa
> - pt: Grupo
> - ro: Grup
> - ru: Группа
> - sk: Grupa
> - sl: grupa
> - sv: Grupp
> - th: กรุป
> - tr: Grup Teorisi
> - zh: &#32676

> - ar: مجموعة
> - bg: Множество
> - cs: Množina
> - de: Menge
> - en: Set (<secta)
> - es: Conjunto (<coniunctus -us or coniunctum -i)
> - eo: Aro (Presumably from "array", which is from Proto-Romance arredare)
> - fa: مجموعه
> - fr: Ensemble (< Vulgar Latin insimul)
> - ko: 집합
> - io: Ensemblo (< V.L. insimul)
> - it: Insieme (< V.L. insimul)
> - he: קבוצה
> - hu: Halmaz
> - lt: Aibė
> - nl: Verzameling (the *zamel- root is, I think, also from Latin simul)
> - ja: 集合
> - no: Mengde
> - pl: Zbiór
> - pt: Conjunto (<coniunctus -us or coniunctum -i)
> - ro: Mulţime
> - ru: Множество
> - sq: Bashkësitë
> - sk: Množina
> - sl: Množica
> - fi: Joukko
> - sv: Mängd
> - uk: Множина
> - zh: 集合

> So "Group" is almost universally a cognate or borrowing of the original French term. Which is a real pain for us, because it has no cognate in Latin, possibly not even in Proto-Romance.

> Set is done in various ways. The ones that have a Latin origin are so marked.

> --Iustinus 18:24 aug 18, 2005 (UTC)

I propose the translation coniunctus for the english word set, because in portuguese set is translated as conjunto. And it makes sense because one of the translations of the verb coniungo is "place side-by-side", and that is what happens when you list the elements of a set, see e.g. numerus primus and numerus naturalis.--Mafrius 18:04 aug 18, 2005 (UTC)

  See my additions to the previous remark. --Iustinus 18:24 aug 18, 2005 (UTC)

Mathematicians continued to write in Latin well into the 20th century; surely the bona fide mathematicians among you will soon be able to find Latin terms for these concepts already in use. In the meantime, I think the best policy for translating technical terms like these is to stick close to the vernacular terms. So (building on previous comments) I would propose -- group: coetus || set: synthesis (cf. Martial and Statius, of a set of dishes) || ring: annulus || field: corpus or campus (both notions are used in major European languages for naming this). Of various Latin terms for groups, flocks, herds, bands, etc., "coetus" perhaps reproduces best the neutrality of "group," "Menge." The problem with the terms "conjuctus" or "conjunctum" is that they are used of a connection, rather than a group of things connected. Mar. 23, 2006.

## [recensere] Bibliography

Here is a list of Latin texts on Algebra which I can find on line (other users should feel free to contribute). Note that I found most of these simply by looking for the string algebr in their titles, which is far from a perfect criterion. I have left works that appear to be about something else (e.g. one of the Leibnix 1710 items seems to be about calculus) just in case:

- 1560 Iacobi Peletarii Cenomani De occulta parte numerorumquam algebram vocant, libri duo: prima pagina totam rem accipere
- Post 1569: Francisci Maurolici Demonstratio Algebrae: textus
- 1570 Hieronymi Cardani Artis Magnae, sive de Regulis Algebraicis Liber Unus Abstrusissimus, De Alixa Regula Liber: textus (ambo)
- 1661 Francisci à Schooten Tractatus de concinnandis Demonstrationibus Geometricis ex Calculo Algebraïco prima pagina
- 1710 Miscellanea Berolinensia ad incrementum scientiarum I

  p. 155, Lebnitii Monitum de Characteribus Algebraicis prima pagina
  p. 160 Lebnitii Symbolismus memorabilis calculi Algebraici et Infinitesimalis, in comparatione potentiarum et differentiarum; et de Lege Homogeneorum Transcendentali: prima pagina
  p. 166 Philippi Naudaei Iunioris Regulae, qua inveniuntur omnes cuiuslibetcunque producti Algebraici divisores... prima pagina

- 1723 Miscellanea Berolinensia ad incrementum scientiarum II

  p. 66 Philippi Naudaei Iunioris Regula, qua inveniuntur, omnes divisores cuiuscunque producti Algebraïci... prima pagina

- 1767 Hieronymi Saladini Methodus Bernoulliana de reducendis quatraturis transcendentibus and longitudinem curvarum algebraicarum pagina prima
- 1799 Caroli Gauss Demonstratio Nova Theorematis Omnem Functionem Algebraicam Rationalem Integram Unius Variabilis in Factores Reales Primi vel Secundi Gradus Resolvi Posse: textus 2 3
- 1842 Witoldi Milewski De ramis infinitis curvarum algebraicarum ordinis 4 tabula
- 1845 Leopoldi Kronecker De Unitatibus Complexis elenchus
- 1860 Hermanni Waldaestel De Fiametris Curvisque Conjugatis Curvarum Algebraicarum index
- 1863 Leonis Pocchammer De superficiei undarum derivatione Elenchus
- 1870 Leopoldi Loewenhutz De curvis tangentialibus curvarum algebraicarum ordinis N elenchus
- 1870 Eugenii Netto De Transformatione Aequationis yn = R(x) elenchus

## [recensere] Suggestion

Suggestion: rather than opening with what most people wrongly think algebra is, wouldn't it be better to start with a good, correct definition of algebra? Such a definition surely can be found in some of the Latin texts which have very helpfully been listed here. I have reedited the first few sentences to improve the Latin; I hope the mathematicians (who are to be thanked for coming up with this article) will look carefully to make sure the content hasn't been affected. Mar. 26, 2006.

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