Greetings,
I am Dr. Chris Lanz, professor of Computer Science at SUNY Potsdam. I am an artificial intelligence researcher, and some years ago I decided that Latin was a better choice for my project than English. To this end I took the introductory courses at my college, 4 semesters of reading Caesar and poetry, and I have completed exercises 1 through 49 (out of 62) in Bradley’s Arnold, working with a tutor. When we finish that text, we will work on a translation into Latin of my favorite book, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.
I frequently have questions for the community about Latin language resources. I would like to find word lists or other forms of vocabulary resources for Latin works in philosophy, mathematics, and music theory. Having found none, I read Descartes and Newton, collecting vocabulary as I went through.
I have created one resource that may be of interest: throughout Bradley’s Arnold, there is information about the usage details of hundreds of specific, single words. While working on the exercises, I frequently found myself laboriously searching through the book for some such detail (e.g. does this verb govern the dative?). To simplify this, I have almost finished going through the entire text, extracting into a single file all the references to words in the book, to ease the problem of search.
Welcome to Textkit, Dr. Lanz!