Learning math-oriented French

The mathematical vocabulary in French is not usually much of a problem: the words tend to be either slight spelling variations of the English words (vecteur, mesurable, isomorphe...) or translations of the corresponding non-mathematical terms (ensemble = set, suite = sequence, carré = square...). There are a few tricky things to watch out for, e.g. under the influence of Bourbaki, in France $0$ is considered to be positive.


My technique has always been to keep a window open with google translate to look up the nouns i didn't know. It's not fool proof (there are some french mathematical terms that simply don't have a good translation), but it got me through a dozen or so papers for my Master's research.


Here is a translation table that might come in handy, to look for a word just use the command control + f and type in your word

http://www.math.unicaen.fr/~reyssat/dico/dicofa.html