Timeline for The letter $\wp$; Name & origin?
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| S Nov 15 at 5:16 | history | suggested | Leland | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 14 at 19:23 | comment | added | pbhj | «nicely calligraphied hand-written letter "P"» to me it's just a handwritten version of a German style printers P-majuscule. We don't have a different printing case in modern English, but it strikes me that is all it is. | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 0:51 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | +1, yes. I first learned this (perhaps from Ahlfors) as: "the Weierstrass pe function". | |
| Dec 2, 2017 at 6:02 | history | edited | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 8, 2017 at 3:31 | vote | accept | teika kazura | ||
| Aug 7, 2017 at 15:49 | history | edited | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2017 at 14:32 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Did Weierstrass write this $\wp$ significantly differently from how he wrote other instances of the letter $p$? | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 9:34 | comment | added | Alex M. | Let me add that in German "pe" is "how to pronounce 'P'", i.e. the equivalent of the English ['pi] (in phonetic transcription). Therefore, at the time of Weierstrass, $\wp$ was nothing more than a nicely calligraphied hand-written letter "P", something like $\mathcal P$ or $\mathscr P$. It was only later that it became a special symbol by itself. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 6:57 | history | edited | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2017 at 6:18 | comment | added | reuns | It might be interesting to ask what was the sequence that lead him to (regularization terms of) the Weierstrass product, if it was the points of a lattice or if he was interested in something else. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 6:13 | comment | added | reuns | $\mathfrak S_\Lambda(z),z \in \mathbb{C}$ is his sigma function, the Weierstrass product associated to a lattice $\Lambda$ | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 6:00 | history | answered | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |