Timeline for Origins of Mathematical Symbols/Names
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| Dec 10, 2009 at 0:22 | comment | added | MLevi | @Arminius: I hope I don't double post. Was having trouble posting earlier, but I did not know that. Thanks. | |
| Dec 9, 2009 at 13:47 | comment | added | Michael Lugo | And U and V are consecutive letters, making them especially convenient for using to represent two neighborhoods that occur together. One often sees, say, a function f: U -> V where U and V are open subsets of A and B, respectively. | |
| Dec 9, 2009 at 10:21 | comment | added | user717 | Yes, I think this is true. And U is for 'Umgebung', the German word for neighborhood. | |
| Dec 9, 2009 at 4:23 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Anton Geraschenko | ||
| Dec 9, 2009 at 3:28 | history | answered | MLevi | CC BY-SA 2.5 |