Questions tagged [translation-request]

This tag is for requests to translate written mathematical material from one language to another.

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What's "stetig fortsetzbar" in English?

If, say, a function $f\colon(a,b)\to\mathbb R$ is continuous and there's a continuous function $g\colon[a,b)\to\mathbb R$ such that $f$ and $g$ agree on $(a,b)$, then some German textbooks call $f$ "stetig fortsetzbar" in $a$, and $g$ is called the…
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Is there any English translation of either of these Weierstrass publications?

Karl Weierstrass, "Über continuirliche Functionen eines reellen Arguments, die für keinen Werth des letzeren einen bestimmten Differentialquotienten besitzen," (On continuous functions of a real argument which possess a definite derivative for no…
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Dutch text to be translated

This is a physics text but in Physics Stack Exchange there is no translation request tag. Please let me know of another site if you cannot help me with this. Thanks
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What verb to use for applying this function?

Consider the function $$f_a : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$$ defined by $f_a(b)= a^b$. What verb should I use to describe the action of this function on $b$? For example, if I defined the function $$g_a : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$$ by $g_a(b) = b +…
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Translation from french to english

I'm reading a proof in Eymard's paper about the Fourier Algebra in which he refer to a proposition and a theorem in Roger Godement paper Les Fonctions De Type Positif et la Theorie Des Groupes, which can be found here (just click on view pdf) . is…
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Translating term from french in Probability

I am reading through J-C.Laleuf's Processus et intégrales stochastiques, Ellipses 2014. I need to know wether I'm correct in the translation of this phrase : On dit qu'un noyau markovien $P_x(x,B)$ est une loi conditionnée de $Y$ par $X$ si et…
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Help with symbols

I was wondering if I could get help with symbolically writing the English sentence, "There exists nothing outside of us." The context I guess would be "the union of us", "us" could also be X and Y. So I'm thinking backwards "E" with a strike…