Timeline for The letter $\wp$; Name & origin?
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| Aug 5, 2022 at 7:49 | comment | added | teika kazura | @AndreasBlass In Wikipedia, $\wp$ as a power set symbol is common (1) (2), to my surprise. My guess is that it's because in Wikipedia you can't use \mathscr to date. | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 7:18 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 5, 2022 at 2:17 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | I learned the symbol $\wp$ for Weierstrass's elliptic function when I was a graduate student in the late 1960's, so long before TeX. Since then, I've seen this symbol used universally for that same function. I've also seen it used occasionally for "power set", but I suspect that's the result of confusion with the more standard notation $\mathcal P$ for power set | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 0:38 | history | edited | teika kazura | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Broken link fix (Abramowitz&Stegun)
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| Jan 5, 2021 at 22:17 | comment | added | Timothy Chow |
The fact that the $\TeX$ name is \wp may be influencing some people to refer to the letter as "Weierstrass p."
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| Sep 8, 2017 at 3:31 | vote | accept | teika kazura | ||
| Aug 17, 2017 at 5:19 | history | edited | teika kazura | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
More early Kurrent/Sutterlin examples.
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| Aug 17, 2017 at 2:32 | answer | added | teika kazura | timeline score: 11 | |
| Aug 15, 2017 at 6:50 | answer | added | Peter Michor | timeline score: 10 | |
| Aug 15, 2017 at 4:50 | history | edited | teika kazura | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 15, 2017 at 4:24 | history | edited | teika kazura | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Typograrphy in early literature
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| Aug 8, 2017 at 5:36 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | @GerryMyerson: It's a very good point now, but there is the subtlety that 19th century people would overwhelmingly call $\wp(u)$, not $\wp$, the function. With rare exceptions, they were queasy about $\wp$ alone being anything more than a letter. So a name for $\wp$ (which I'm not saying that had, but maybe Pe) would initially be a letter name, not a function name. | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 2:59 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | I never heard the letter called "the Weierstrass p"; I only ever heard the function called "the Weierstrass p-function." I've heard the letter called "curly p." | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 22:51 | history | edited | Francois Ziegler |
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| Aug 7, 2017 at 18:01 | comment | added | Michael Renardy | In an era where all mathematics is written in English, it is easy to forget that the use of German script letters for mathematical notation was once common throughout the German mathematical literature. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 14:10 | answer | added | user35486 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 12:16 | answer | added | Manfred Weis | timeline score: 16 | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 6:50 | history | edited | Ben McKay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2017 at 6:00 | answer | added | Francois Ziegler | timeline score: 41 | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 4:23 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 7, 2017 at 4:20 | history | asked | teika kazura | CC BY-SA 3.0 |