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Steal this idea: a Shazam of mathematical notation. In an app you would draw (or take a picture) of a mathematical symbol you don’t recognize and get a link to
by Darkstryder 6y ago
Steal this idea: a Shazam of mathematical notation. In an app you would draw (or take a picture) of a mathematical symbol you don’t recognize and get a link to the appropriate Wikipedia page.
My biggest pet peeve with mathematical symbols is the difficulty of looking them up when you don’t know them already. If I’m reading a text on a topic I'm unfamiliar with, I can at least google the keywords I don't know. This is difficult with symbols.
- jpm48 6y agoyou could try something like https://mathpix.com/ https://mathpix.com/ and then look up what the LaTeX symbol is.
- cdu1 6y agoGreat idea. I'm a fan of this app/site for finding the Latex command for a particular symbol: https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html. Then just need to look up the Latex on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols
- scribu 6y agoShapecatcher is a free webapp that allows you to draw any Unicode symbol: https://shapecatcher.com/ https://shapecatcher.com/