The Notion of Authorship in Mathematical Texts
Rafael Descovi Galelli | 2015
This study intends to discuss the concept of authorship within the translation studies framework and its interface with scientific texts, in particular, mathematical texts. This discussion will be an exploratory argument among the different understandings of authorship within these different perspectives. There are two main arguments at the center: the relationship between authorship and originality and its consequences to translations. These two arguments find its foundations in the works of Lawrence Venuti and Sundar Sarukkai, from the Translation Studies and Hard Sciences points of view respectively. The main objective is to perceive that although the understanding of originality is intrinsically related to that of authorship, any change in the conception of this original can cause different understandings on writing and on translation alike even in more strict scientific contexts.