The transitions between the text and the symbols are really mesmerizing, almost satisfying lol I also learned about symbols that I have never ever used. Great video, keep it up!
Kinda funny and a bit strange how he didn't explain parentheses, certain numbers and values like π, φ, θ, ε and ω, trigonometric functions, integral variations, lines and planes like ℒ and 𝒫, and more...
There aren't really many letters in the whole video, i don't think it's strange. In fact, the title says symbols and symbols ≠ letters. Also, each letter can have many many many uses so it wouldn't be as informative. Pi can be used as 3.14, in statistics (iirc pi is used for two important, different concepts) and as a constant in physics (from what i know). C can be used as the speed of light, as the little +C after every integral and probably as other things. Ive seen phi in like 5 different contexts this last semester in college. Etc. Letters would be impossible to turn into an extensive list
@@alecmartin8543to add to your list, π commonly denotes projection maps in geometry and topology, and the prime-counting function in number theory. capital C isn't actually used all that much to my knowledge, and i think that's because mathematicians like to have arbitrary constants floating around when they need them.
Some other uses for specific symbols: 1:17 Can be used as a relation in set theory 3:14 Right symbol can be used for a discrete change 3:28 Exterior product/wedge product 3:32 Direct sum 4:28 Almost every blackboard bold letter is used somewhere. F and K are used for fields. Blame the Germans for that one. 4:52 I have seem ' used for practically anything. Inverse of an element, complement, you name it. 5:27 Curly d is used for the boundary of something. For example, it's one of a few ways of notating the boundary in topology. 5:53 There are many different kinds of integral and variations on the symbol. For example the path integral, notated with the usual symbol with a circle on top is the integral along a closed curve. 5:43 It is more commonly used to show what an element maps to as part of a function. 6:18 Please never use mathfrak if possible. This is a personal request. 6:21 Sometimes used to represent cosets. Maybe this was just my prof? Who knows. 7:17 It can sometimes be used for any arbitrary metric, although this drives me insane. 8:00 Also can just represent any geometric vector.
Dummit & Foote's textbook uses the overbar (6:21) to denote the equivalence class of an element (cosets included), and to denote images of subgroups/subrings/submodules/subfields under a natural projection. I think I have seen at least one other text use the overbar in a similar way.
#11 ~ can also mean (and is mainly used for) asymptoticity or arbitrary equivalence relations (as well as negation, but mostly by philosophers) #14-#17 can also be used for subgroups/subspaces/subalgebras #34 the \oplus also means, and is mainly used for, direct sums between two spaces #35 "R v ~R = T" you're setting yourself up for trouble with intuitionists lmao #49 the universal set famously doesn't exist, in case you've never heard of russell's paradox #57 "log without a subscript" is ambiguous, it depends on the surrounding discipline : in math it's usually base e (like ln), in physics it's usually base ten, and in cs it's usually base 2. #60-#61 they're more usually written Re() and Im() #62 can also be written with an * at the right side of the x, symbol which can also denote a dual space ; x̄ is also a common symbol for the average value #70 "... from on the number line" as well as in the complex plane, although it's usually called the 'modulus' there #81 damn, i've literally never seen that one ! i'd usually just write it (AB) at this point. do you have some sources that show this double combining double-ended arrow above thing being used ?
Curly braces in desmos denotes a piecewise expression in the form {condition : then, else}, not a set For example {n>3 : 7 , n+1} would evaluate to 7 if n is greater than 3, if n is not greater than 3 then it returns n+1 By default, the values for then and else are 1 and NaN (which shows up as undefined) so for example, {n>0} evaluates 1 if n>0 and NaN if n
@@cosmnik472 when you write x^2 {x>0}, desmos interprets this literally as a multiplication between x^2 and {x>0}. when x≤0, {x>0} = NaN, so multiplying by NaN gives NaN. when x>0, {x>0} = 1, so the expression is x^2 * 1= x^2, which is what needs to be plotted. so it's basically just using multiplication by 1 as the "do nothing" operation. thus, empty brackets { } denote something that is always true, so they are always equal to 1 no matter what. very cool but a little hacky in my opinion
Very interesting seeing the logic philosophy symbols, learned that last semester and didn’t know if they actually counted as a math symbols lol. Haven’t seen it anywhere else.
The oplus sign (XOR) could also mean Direct Sums of groups, rings, etc. When an algebra or group is "graded", it can be decomposed into a direct sum of smaller algebras or groups.
I believe everyone regardless of their educational level will be pleased to watch this video. Very interesting content, may you can add more symbols that we often use. Such as degree (in angle and in temperature), arc... etc
I’m a little surprised you didn’t include the top arrow for vectors and the hat symbol for unit vectors. As a side note, physicists tend to use * for the complex conjugate and † for the Hermitian adjoint.
@@Raj_Dave They have applications in data science, programming, and pure math. The arrow notation is likely exclusive to physics, but vectors themselves are everywhere.
imo these are just letters, not special mathematical symbols. thus that is not "an unforgivable crime". it is like saying the author should have added the whole latin alphabet only because mathematicians tend to use it moreover, the preferrable usage of *letters* in mathematics highly depend on a country. For instance, google claims the letter for "area" is "A", but we in eastern europe are likely to use "S" suppose you did not try thinking before posting your comment 😀
@@tyrjialBro took a damn yt comment serious💀 No he's just tryna say that like if you think of math π is one of the first things that come to your mind, oretty important to math
There are many kinds of multiplication symbols including the dot . And X for ordinary one defined on scalars or vectors. ٨ for exterior product on IR³ or on the exterior algebra , And X inside a circle for the tensor multiplication on a tensor algebra. Off course we don't count the inner product On Hilbert Spaces as it is a composed one.
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5:31 the integral isn’t necessarily an antiderivative but the difference between 2 anti derivatives can be a shortcut to finding the integral the integral is the sum of all outcomes of a function between a upper and lower limit (think of sigma but not limited to integers)
No, that notation is used for a vector from A to B, having a certain length. I have never seen notation #81 though. I guess if you accept #81 as true, then your explanation makes more sense for #81
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Ok I solved it Let, h(x)= limit(x)^1/x x->infi Limit (x)^1/x = e⁰=1 x->inf therf (h(x))²=1 Let P(x)= Sum(k=0->8) sin(2πk/9) Solving this by putting k=0,1,2,.....8 P(x)=0 {surprisingly} Therf (P(x))²= 0 Putting all together √(h(x))²-(P(x))² = √1-0 = √1 Answer = 1 Till now Idk why this is the banner of this channel
2:16 In Ukrainian language there is a letter 'є'(ye) which is also a word that means "is" , it is quite interesting how close it is to the mathematical meaning of that symbol.
Mathematics fact : you can represent a complex number by x+iy where x is the real part and y is the imaginary part. A sq root of a negative number will be a complex number. Where i⁰ is 1 and i¹ is i and i² is -1 if you plot it on graph you will get a circle of radius pi.
7:59 No, it represents a ray with an endpoint at the first point and passing through the second, going off toward infinity. A ray does not have two endpoints.
Math is a language, and often the symbols are still up to interpretation. ✖️is used for multiplying numbers, cross-products on vectors, cartesian/ direct products on sets, and likely has some more applications (ie. Field Theory/ Ring Theory) Symbols are usually representative of Relations, whereas we often describe theoretical relations with dummy-symbols: “A relation R relates elements from the structure S, such that for all x,y of S: xRy” - and we would give properties to R, such as defining Reflexivity, Symmetry, and Transitivity,,, which are necessary properties for defining Equality and Ordering. Ordering is described in books using ambiguous symbols, but the convention is well documented- literally, a “partial order” is typically given a < symbol (sometimes it looks more squiggly),,, this is because < behaves pretty much the exact same way (not technically). Numerals themselves, I believe, are / are related to Quantifiers. Instead of “For All” or “There exist” etc 4 = “Four” - is a symbolic representation of a quantity. One of the topics I study tries to recognize that numerals represent quantities, which allows us to use numbers to define Abstract concepts- knowing that Scalars are Tensors that are built on those concepts (so, I try to unwrap the paradoxes) ~ is also used for logical negations (predicate logic), is probably more common. Predicates, in my opinion are just one type of logical statement, and the behavior comes from their ancestors… But, it is arguably a linguistics topic that intersects math (not my expertise) # is sometimes used instead of R for relations- I’ve also seen it used in Topology as an operation for “gluing manifolds”,,, but idk anything about that subject. FunFact: The Union and Intersect symbols are used for set operations - they are also used for Families, with a slightly different notation (I forget which definition for “Family”,,, as it can mean many things)
What’s the best symbol to express “let a = b?” I usually use an equals sign with a triangle over it, but it seems most people just write out the “let” instead of using a different symbol
Your symbol is for definition. Hence the delta, the Greek letter d, standing for definition. If I'm, say, teaching what a vector space is, and I introduce some new notation, like ker(V), I would define it to be whatever it is. In this case, the subset of V which maps to the 0 vector under some linear map we're considering.
In my experience the most common notation is a := b. Triangle-over-equals seems to also be widely accepted. I have also seen ≡ used for this purpose, but I personally wouldn't because the symbol has many other meanings.
@@Zephei Yeah, I’ve seen the symbol with three lines as sometimes representing an identity, so I tend not to use it for “let a=b.” I’ll look into the := thanks!
Arithmetic operators: plus (+), minus (-), multiplication (x or dot), division (/) Plus or minus (±) Range (-) Root symbol (√) Equal (=) Not equal (≠) Approximately equal (≈) or tilde (~) Proportionality (∝) Triple bar or equivalent (=) Less than ( Less than or equal to (≤) Greater than or equal to (≥) Much less than > Empty set symbol (∅) Number sign (#) In (∈) Not in (∉) Set inclusion (⊂) Proper subset (⊊) Union (∪) Intersection (∩) Set difference () Symmetric difference (Δ or ⊖) Negation symbol (¬) AND (&) OR (∨) XOR (⊕) True (T) False (F) Universal quantifier (∀) Existential quantifier (∃) Uniqueness quantifier (∃!) Conditional operator (→) Logical equivalence (↔) Basic number systems: N (natural numbers), Z (integers), Q (rational numbers), R (real numbers), C (complex numbers), H (quaternions), O (octonians), U (universal set) Prime (') for derivatives and dot (.) for Newton's notation Integral (∫) Function composition Logarithm (log or ln) Limit (lim) Real part (Re) Imaginary part (Im) Complex conjugate (bar over a complex number) Summation (Σ) Product (∏) Infinity (∞) Aleph (ℵ) Factorial (!) Binomial coefficient (nCk) Absolute value (|) Floor function (⌊⌋) Ceiling function (⌈⌉) Nearest integer function (round) Visibility line (-) Non-divisibility (/) Parallelism (||) Non-parallelism (∦) Perpendicularity (⊥) Coprime (/) Line segment (overline) Line or ray (→) Infinite line (↔) I hope this helps!