Timeline for Origin of symbol *l* for a prime different from a fixed prime?
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| Jul 6, 2010 at 16:09 | comment | added | Jim Humphreys |
This further look back into history is a good reminder of how irrational the development of notation has been in mathematics. Still, someone must have been first to use (and maybe rationalize) the symbol $\ell$ in the way indicated. It might have been Weil, so maybe I will give his collected papers a try when I get courageous.
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| Jul 6, 2010 at 14:08 | history | edited | quim | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 6, 2010 at 12:06 | history | answered | quim | CC BY-SA 2.5 |