VietAlphaLabs/zh-en-1945-mathematics-dictionary

<h1 align="center">VietAlpha English–Chinese Mathematics Dictionary</h1> <h3 align="center"><em>數學名詞, 1945</em></h3>

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The VietAlpha English–Chinese Mathematics Dictionary is a machine-readable, verified digital edition of 數學名詞 (Mathematical Terms), the English–Chinese mathematical terminology standard compiled by the National Institute for Compilation and Translation (國立編譯館) and promulgated by the Ministry of Education, in its 1945 printing.

The printed work lists 3,426 numbered English terms with their standardized Traditional Chinese equivalents, arranged alphabetically in two columns over 61 pages. This release contains 3,413 entries covering the whole of that book.

What the Entries Look Like

Each printed line carries an English term (often with a parenthesized synonym note such as (Syn: Monodrome function)) and one or more Chinese equivalents separated by ，. Optional elements in either language are printed in brackets ([Circular] cone / 〔圓〕錐), and proper names inside the Chinese term are underlined in the print (the 亞倍爾 of 亞倍爾函數, Abelian functions). All of this is preserved:

The text is transcribed as printed: the book's historical term choices (亞倍爾 for Abel, 函數 throughout, 壔 alongside 稜柱 for prisms) and its Traditional Chinese glyph forms are preserved as the book prints them.

Record Schema

{
  "record_id": "0003",
  "english": "Abelian functions",
  "chinese": "亞倍爾函數",
  "chinese_underlined": ["亞倍爾"]
}

Files

Loading the Data

Hugging Face datasets

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset(
    "VietAlphaLabs/zh-en-1945-mathematics-dictionary",
    "dictionary",
    split="train",
)

print(f"Loaded {len(dataset)} entries")
print(dataset[0])

Pandas

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_parquet("dictionary.parquet")

# Every term the book gives for "function"
fn = df[df["english"].str.contains(r"\bfunction", case=False)]
print(f"{len(fn)} function entries")

# Entries with an underlined proper name (eponymous terms)
named = df[df["chinese_underlined"].apply(len) > 0]
print(f"{len(named)} eponymous entries")

Licensing & Attribution

• —Transcriptions & dataset code: Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 © 2026 VietAlpha Lab.
• —Historical work: The underlying terminology standard 數學名詞 (1945), compiled by the National Institute for Compilation and Translation (國立編譯館), is in the public domain.
• —When citing or redistributing this dataset, please retain the `NOTICE` file and cite as follows:

@dataset{vietalpha2026shuxuemingci,
  author       = {VietAlpha Lab},
  title        = {VietAlpha English–Chinese Mathematics Dictionary (數學名詞, 1945)},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/VietAlphaLabs/zh-en-1945-mathematics-dictionary}},
  note         = {Digitized and reconstructed from 數學名詞, National Institute for Compilation and Translation (1945)}
}