List of letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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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[edit]

Typographical variations of digits in Unicode
Name Digits
Double-struck 𝟘 𝟙 𝟚 𝟛 𝟜 𝟝 𝟞 𝟟 𝟠 𝟡

Latin[edit]

Greek[edit]

Other scripts[edit]

Hebrew[edit]

א Cardinality of infinite sets
ב Cardinality of infinite sets
ג Gimel function
ת Tav (number)

Cyrillic[edit]

Л Lobachevsky function[1]
Ш Tate–Shafarevich group
ш Shuffle product

Japanese[edit]

Yoneda embedding[2]
Satake compactification[3][4]

Modified Latin[edit]

Å Angstrom
Universal quantification
Đ Dispersity
Partial derivative
ð Spin-weighted partial derivative
Existential quantification
Reduced Planck constant
Ø Empty set
Integral

Modified Greek[edit]

Del operator
Gradient
Divergence
Curl
Element (mathematics)
ƛ Reduced wavelength
Coproduct

References[edit]

  1. ^ Satou, Nobuo (2017-03-23). "AN ENHANCEMENT OF THE ZAGIER CONJECTURE( Dissertation_全文 )". 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 [math.SG].
  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.