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From an answer to a previous question I learned that Peano published in Latin as long as 1889.

What was the last mathematical paper/book of recognized importance published in Latin?

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    Gerben: The quote is of Henri Cartan. It's at the very beginning of Gelfand & Manin's *Methods of Homological Algebra*. The quote comes from Cartan's acceptance speech when he received a Doctor Honoris Causa title in 1980. I wonder to what extent exactly this is a joke, akin to http://www.math.unicaen.fr/~dehornoy/Clips/PatrickSpeech.mpg2011-08-28

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Zentralblatt lets you search by language of paper where I discovered this recent example.

Schechtman, Vadim New definition of a vertex algebroid. (Definitio nova algebroidis verticiani.) (Latin) A Bernstein, Joseph (ed.) et al., Studies in Lie theory. Dedicated to A. Joseph on his sixtieth birthday. Basel: Birkhäuser. Progress in Mathematics 243, 443-494 (2006).

In the preface, the editors note that Schechtman's paper is "linguistically refreshing"!

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    *In the preface, the editors note that Schechtman's paper is "linguistically refreshing"!* – They should have said *linguistically reviving …*2015-11-13