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Learn the names of symbols of advanced math

Name: Grey 2008-03-26 16:59

Hey /sci/

I on a Game-Programming school and they teached us some necessary math needed in (2D) games like Sine and the likes. But i didn't remember everything they said, so i started reading some wikipedia pages, but they start 'throwing' with symbols that look like a Z or a 0 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine for example)

my question is: does /sci/ has a nice webpage where they explain what all those symbols mean? This way i can help myself further on.

KTHXBYE

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-26 20:39

alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega.  24 proper letters in two cases, degenerate characters include digamma (looks like an F) and sampi.

It pays to know it cold.

We're about to do contour integration so I'm about to find out what the fuck is up with that integral sign with the circle through the middle (I know it's integrating around regions of the plane or some shit, but still).

Every branch of math has its own ad hoc symbols, and the only way to learn a language is to read, speak, and write it, over and over.

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