Timeline for How does one write the "gothic" letters ($\mathfrak{g}$) in handwriting?
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| Jul 22, 2023 at 21:51 | comment | added | user496902 | @ElizabethHenning I can readily believe that this is the case in Germany, but I am sure that everywhere else in the world most mathematicians will be familiar with the Fraktur type ($\mathfrak g$, $\mathfrak h$ etc.) but not with Sütterlinschrift. (And even when it comes to Germany, I challenge a native German-speaker to say that they can look at this text and say they can read it fluently.) | |
| May 8, 2023 at 20:41 | comment | added | Elizabeth Henning | This absolutely is the correct answer and maybe some OG German mathematicians would weigh in here. As for the complaints that it's obsolete, well, Fraktur is "obsolete" as a printed font also. Sütterlinschrift is the corresponding handwritten version. It's not that hard to remember (or distinguish) the half-dozen or so letters that are acutally used in Lie theory. | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 17:58 | comment | added | KConrad | That capital S is just bizarre. I can’t fathom how it could have been developed as a letter form analogous to $\mathfrak S$. | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 16:41 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl♦ | I still learned these letters in elementary school -- but as old / historic, and not as usual font. | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 16:34 | comment | added | Peter Kropholler | @BCLC yes there are capital and small of each letter. For example $\mathfrak G$ and $\mathfrak g$. Use $\backslash$mathfrak to get these in latex. | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 9:22 | comment | added | BCLC | how is this different from the regular script? perhaps you could exhibit the differences please? also there's capital gothic? omg i hate this font XD | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 7:39 | comment | added | Peter Kropholler | Historically, this answer is correct: this is how Fraktur symbols were written until the mid-nineteen-eighties at least. Of course, times change, and today this form of handwriting is rare even in Germany. | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 7:35 | comment | added | Martin Brandenburg | Yes, this answer is not correct. | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 6:38 | comment | added | Najib Idrissi | This looks nothing like the fraktur font used in most math papers. Maybe this answer is philosophically "correct," but it's definitely the wrong answer to the question that was asked. | |
| Dec 26, 2022 at 0:19 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Asaf Karagila♦ | ||
| Dec 26, 2022 at 0:00 | comment | added | LSpice | As in @q002's comment, I hope no speaker, howsoever perfect their handwriting, would dare to use the handwritten lowercase ‘e’ and lowercase ‘n’ in the same talk and expect the audience to distinguish them …. | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 22:52 | comment | added | Michael Greinecker | @q002 They will look puzzling to Germans too. | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 22:51 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | Let's face it: Greek letters look puzzling to non-Greeks. And so on ... until you learn them. | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 22:47 | comment | added | user496902 | These look rather like Sütterlinschrift (e.g.)... I'm afraid many of these forms would look very puzzling to non-Germans (especially the lowercase 'e')... | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 22:41 | history | answered | Gerald Edgar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
