Mathematical alphanumeric symbols

Mathematical alphanumeric symbols

Mathematical alphanumeric symbols are modifications of Latin and Greek letters and decimal digits that enable mathematicians to denote different notions with different letter styles (one example is blackboard bold, called "double-struck" in Unicode terminology).

Unicode now includes many such symbols (in the range U+1D400 ... U+1D7FF). The rationale behind this is that it enables design of special mathematical fonts that include all necessary characters in a single collection. Those symbols should be used only in mathematical formulas; in general text, use standard letters with markup instead.

All these letter shapes may be manipulated with MathML’s attribute mathvariant.

The letters in various fonts often have specific, fixed meanings in particular areas of mathematics. By providing uniformity over numerous mathematical articles and books, these conventions help to read mathematical formulae.

Tables

You will probably only see empty boxes or question marks in most cells of the following tables unless you have a suitable Unicode font (such as Code2001) and a browser (such as Mozilla Firefox) and operating system supporting Unicode characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane.

Latin letters

External links

* [http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D400.pdf The official code chart (PDF)]
* [http://www.decodeunicode.org/en/mathematical_alphanumeric_symbols] Every mathematical symbol as an image.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols — redirects here. This article is about the Unicode block. For standard meanings of algebraic letters, see List of letters used in mathematics and science. Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols is a Unicode block of Latin and Greek letters and decimal… …   Wikipedia

  • Mathematical notation — For information on rendering mathematical formulas in Wikipedia, see Help:Formula. See also: Table of mathematical symbols Mathematical notation is a system of symbolic representations of mathematical objects and ideas. Mathematical notations are …   Wikipedia

  • Mathematical operators and symbols in Unicode — ⊙ redirects here. For the similar symbol ☉, see Sun. Unicode ranges mathematical operators and symbols in multiple blocks. Mathematical Operators (U+2200–U+22FF) Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols A (U+27C0–U+27EF) Miscellaneous Mathematical… …   Wikipedia

  • Unicode symbols — v · Character Types Scripts Unihan ideographs, etc. Phonetic characters Punctuation and separators Diacritics and other marks Symbols Numerals Compatibility characters …   Wikipedia

  • Apple Symbols — is a font introduced in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. This is a Truetype font, intended to provide coverage for characters defined as symbols in the Unicode Standard. It continues to ship with Mac OS X as part of the default installation. Prior to Mac… …   Wikipedia

  • Typographical conventions in mathematical formulae — provide uniformity across mathematical texts and help the readers of those texts to grasp new concepts quickly.Mathematical notation includes letters from various alphabets, as well as special mathematical symbols. Letters in various fonts often… …   Wikipedia

  • Wikipedia:Mathematical symbols — Shortcut: WP:MATHSYMBOL This page is a quick reference for the standard mathematical symbols in HTML that should work on most browsers, and is intended mainly for people editing mathematical articles on Wikipedia. Numbers: ¼ ½ ¾ frac14; frac12;… …   Wikipedia

  • Table of mathematical symbols — This is a listing of common symbols found within all branches of the science of mathematics.ee also* Greek letters used in mathematics * ISO 31 11 * Mathematical alphanumeric symbols * Mathematical notation * Notation in probability * Physical… …   Wikipedia

  • alphanumeric — also alphanumerical adjective Etymology: alphabetic + numeric, numerical Date: 1950 1. consisting of both letters and numbers and often other symbols (as punctuation marks and mathematical symbols) < an alphanumeric code >; also being a character …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Unicode character property — Unicode assigns character properties to each code point.[1] These properties can be used to handle characters (code points) in processes, like in line breaking, script direction right to left or applying controls. Slightly inconsequently, some… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”