Hebrew letters spotted in applied math

The Endeavour 2021-06-23

Summary:

Math and physics use Greek letters constantly, but seldom do they use letters from any other alphabet. The only Cyrillic letter I recall seeing in math is sha (Ш, U+0428) for the so-called Dirc comb distribution. One Hebrew letter is commonly used in math, and that’s aleph (א, U+05D0). Aleph is used fairly often, but […]

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John

Date tagged:

06/23/2021, 17:19

Date published:

06/23/2021, 15:50