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


Yes, it's a capital pi. It's still the same Greek letter.

Tom
.

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