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I have found undefined notation to be the bane of my existence when trying to teach myself a field of math. How do you Google mathematical notation? It can be
by elmomle 6y ago
I have found undefined notation to be the bane of my existence when trying to teach myself a field of math. How do you Google mathematical notation? It can be a giant and opaque barrier to deepening one's knowledge when studying the subject on one's own.
- jaykru 6y agoMaybe this will help: https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html Then you can e.g. use the name of the TeX command for the symbol to Google its meaning (Stackexchanges are often full of questions looking for the TeX command for a symbol, so you could use these to infer in the other direction)
- elmomle 6y agoThanks--this is most helpful! :)
- ZephyrBlu 6y agoStrongly agree. It's very difficult to work out what a symbol means if you've never seen it before. In saying that, in general I've found it's not too bad. Mostly greeks and the occasional symbol like sigma along with some set notation.