Latin has played a significant role in the history and development of mathematics. For example, an interesting article by Richard Oosterhoff on Neo-Latin Mathematics indicates the extent to which Latin has helped to promote the prestige and circulation of mathematical work since medieval times.
There is a huge amount of mathematics written in Latin freely available online. To give one example of a particularly rich source, the Euler Archive provides all 850+ of Euler’s written works in digital form, most of which are written in Latin. The Latin edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica is also in the public domain and freely downloadable online, as is a famous prize submission to the Paris Academy in 1861 by Bernhard Riemann, and Carl Friedrich Gauss’s famous Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, along with countless other works by numerous mathematicians in repositories such as wilbourhall.org, the French national library’s Gallica website, archive.org, and others.
I have compiled some Latin `crib notes’ here to provide a quick reminder of basic grammar rules. A useful vocabulary list which is worth learning is DCC’s Latin Core Vocabulary (the 1000 most frequently occurring words in Latin).
Dr Christian P. H. Salas 