Modern LaTeX Editions of Public-Domain Mathematics Manuscripts

This record is the public front page for an ongoing project to produce modern, inspectable LaTeX editions of older mathematics and physics manuscripts, especially works that are public-domain or otherwise suitable for public scholarly transcription. The immediate goal is a clean original-language typesetting layer: readable LaTeX PDFs, corresponding TeX/source files, source-witness scans or references, provenance notes, and quality control manifests. Translation is a later layer once the source-language editions are stable.

The project is deliberately a working corpus, not a final critical edition. Machine-assisted transcription, OCR cleanup, layout repair, source comparison, and human review are all in progress. Files are published here when they are useful for inspection and correction, but the manifests should be consulted before treating any individual item as polished.

Current corpus status:

• Represented work packages in this release set: 31.
• Standalone reader-facing LaTeX PDFs currently exposed: 28.
• Bulk full-repo package for the current release: 1.
• Non-European / Central Asian source-manuscript handoff: local transcription packet exists, but those materials are not yet converted into this public LaTeX release layer.
• Translation layer: not yet part of the public corpus here, except for local coordination packets outside this Zenodo release.
• Overall project completion: early-stage. The release set is a subset of the intended broad historical corpus, not a claim that the authors or traditions represented here are complete.

How the files are organized:

• 00_pdf__... files are reader-facing LaTeX-generated PDFs. They are placed first so individual PDFs can be found quickly.
• 10_artifacts__... files are per-work artifact ZIPs. These contain TeX/source material, provenance/QC files, and available reference material for checking or rebuilding the work.
• 80_... files are manifests, audit summaries, packaging notes, and cleanup queues.
• 99_full_repo__... is a bulk ZIP for people who want the whole current release at once.

Quality and cleanup policy: top-level PDFs should be generated reader PDFs rather than loose scans. Scans and reference PDFs belong inside the per-work artifact ZIPs. Publisher or collected-edition front matter, title pages, prefaces, ISBN/copyright pages, and running headers are being stripped or replaced as packages are rebuilt. The underlying historical papers and mathematical texts are the target of the project; modern publisher packaging is not. The included audit and cleanup queue identify works that still need this treatment.

Use guidance: readers who only want a typeset draft should download a 00_pdf__... file. Editors, proofreaders, or downstream agents should download the corresponding 10_artifacts__... ZIP. Anyone reusing the corpus should keep the PDF, TeX, and source-witness/provenance material together so errors can be checked against the source.

Forward plan: continue consolidating Kimi/web-session outputs, repair compile/layout failures, cut collected works into clean per-paper or per-work units, strip publisher apparatus, add non-European and Central Asian materials after transcription, and then add translation layers once the original-language TeX is stable.