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Table of mathematical symbols by introduction date
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/History_of_mathematical_notation/d1bmnK4e">History of mathematical notation</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/History_of_the_Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_system/PSFvjx4m">History of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Glossary_of_mathematical_symbols/rQkbGGna">Glossary of mathematical symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_mathematical_symbols_by_subject/yhYvHQ66">List of mathematical symbols by subject</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Mathematical_notation/vHgEE8cE">Mathematical notation</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Mathematical_operators_and_symbols_in_Unicode/N8sebKEI">Mathematical operators and symbols in Unicode</a></li></ul> <h2 id="sources">Sources</h2> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.rapidtables.com/math/symbols/Basic_Math_Symbols.html">RapidTables: Math Symbols List</a></li> <li><a href="https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathsym/">Jeff Miller: <i>Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols</i></a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Cajori, Florian (1993). A History of Mathematical Notations. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Boyer, Carl B. (1991), A History of Mathematics (Second ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN 978-0-471-54397-8 <a href="978-0-471-54397-8" target="_blank">978-0-471-54397-8</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Earliest Uses of Symbols for Matrices and Vectors". jeff560.tripod.com. Retrieved 18 December 2016. <a href="http://jeff560.tripod.com/matrices.html" target="_blank">http://jeff560.tripod.com/matrices.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Earliest Uses of Symbols for Matrices and Vectors". jeff560.tripod.com. Retrieved 18 December 2016. <a href="http://jeff560.tripod.com/matrices.html" target="_blank">http://jeff560.tripod.com/matrices.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Earliest Uses of Symbols for Matrices and Vectors". jeff560.tripod.com. Retrieved 18 December 2016. <a href="http://jeff560.tripod.com/matrices.html" target="_blank">http://jeff560.tripod.com/matrices.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Weil, André (1992), The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician, Springer, p. 114, ISBN 9783764326500. <a href="9783764326500" target="_blank">9783764326500</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Halmos, Paul (1950). Measure Theory. New York: Van Nostrand. pp. vi. The symbol ∎ is used throughout the entire book in place of such phrases as "Q.E.D." or "This completes the proof of the theorem" to signal the end of a proof. <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Kenneth E. Iverson (1962), A Programming Language, Wiley, retrieved 20 April 2016 <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson" target="_blank">/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>