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List of letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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
NameDigits
Double-struck𝟘 𝟙 𝟚 𝟛 𝟜 𝟝 𝟞 𝟟 𝟠 𝟡

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

אCardinality of infinite sets
בCardinality of infinite sets
גGimel function
תTav (number)

Cyrillic

ЛLobachevsky function1
ШTate–Shafarevich groupDirac comb
шShuffle product

Japanese

Yoneda embedding2
Satake compactification34

Modified Latin

ÅAngstrom
Universal quantification
ĐDispersity
Partial derivative
ðSpin-weighted partial derivative
Existential quantification
ℏ {\textstyle \hbar } Reduced Planck constant
ØEmpty set
∫ {\displaystyle \int } Integral

Modified Greek

Del operatorGradientDivergenceCurl
Element (mathematics)
ƛReduced wavelength
Coproduct

References

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  2. Li-Bland, David (2015). "The stack of higher internal categories and stacks of iterated spans". arXiv:1506.08870 [math.SG]. /wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)

  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. https://archive.org/details/mukai-1999

  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. 9783540381761