Re: Pronunciation of mathematical symbols
Stork replied to:
It was a bit kidding but not thought political: just
about Greek symbols (which are never pronounced like
in Greek and I thought your question was towards it).
Actually, I guess the answer would be, whatever would be considered
correct by mathmeticians. As far as symbols go, I didn't even think of
it, but, now that you mention it, I can probably get the greek from a
greek alphabet page. But what I'm really wondering is for symbols that
are less obviously greek in their pronunciation.
For example, we all know that PI has its little post and lintel symbol,
but, if I examine one of the ways to compute a gamma function, I can
see that there is a large PI like symbol. Is that pronounced PI?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_function
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