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This list is about the meanings of the letters used in mathematics, science and engineering. For the Unicode block, see Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2011)

Latin and Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions, and also conventionally for variables representing certain quantities.

Hindu-Arabic numerals

Typographical variations of digits in Unicode
Name Digits
Double-struck 𝟘 πŸ™ 𝟚 πŸ› 𝟜 𝟝 𝟞 𝟟 𝟠 𝟑

Latin

Main article: Latin letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

Greek

Main article: Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

Other scripts

Hebrew

א Cardinality of infinite sets
Χ‘ Cardinality of infinite sets
Χ’ Gimel function
Χͺ Tav (number)

Cyrillic

Π› Lobachevsky function
Π¨ Tate–Shafarevich group
Dirac comb
ш Shuffle product

Japanese

γ‚ˆ Yoneda embedding
γ‚΅ Satake compactification

Modified Latin

Γ… Angstrom
βˆ€ Universal quantification
Đ Dispersity
βˆ‚ Partial derivative
Γ° Spin-weighted partial derivative
βˆƒ Existential quantification
{\textstyle \hbar } Reduced Planck constant
Ø Empty set
{\displaystyle \int } Integral

Modified Greek

βˆ‡ Del operator
Gradient
Divergence
Curl
∈ Element (mathematics)
Ζ› Reduced wavelength
∐ Coproduct

References

  1. Satou, Nobuo (2017-03-23). "AN ENHANCEMENT OF THE ZAGIER CONJECTURE( Dissertation_ε…¨ζ–‡ )". Kyoto University Research Information Repository. doi:10.14989/doctor.k20155.
  2. Li-Bland, David (2015). "The stack of higher internal categories and stacks of iterated spans". arXiv:1506.08870 .
  3. Mukai, Shigeru (11 January 1999). "Moduli of abelian surfaces and regular polyhedral groups". Moduli of Algebraic Varieties: 5–7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2023.
  4. Namikawa, Yukihiko (1980). "Main problem and main results". Toroidal Compactification of Siegel Spaces. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Vol. 812. Springer. pp. 7–11. doi:10.1007/BFb0091053. ISBN 9783540381761.
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