terms from foreign languages used in mathematics (html version) (original) (raw)
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Following are from foreign that appear in mathematical literature. Each (TeX tabular) contains from the foreign indicated. The foreign are ordered according to how many appear in its corresponding . In each , the are listed in alphabetical .
1 Latin
2 German
| abbr. | literal | mathematical usage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ansatz | approach, attempt | assumed form for an expression | |
| eigen | , typical | eigenvalue; eigenvector | |
| Grösse, Größe | size, magnitude | Grössencharacter | |
| Faltung | folding | convolution | |
| im kleinen | in the small | connected im kleinen | |
| Nullstellensatz | zero point | zero point | |
| Stufe | stair, | stufe of a field | |
| Urelement | primeval element | set element which is not a set | |
| V, K4 | Vierergruppe | four-group | Klein 4-group |
| ℤ | Zahlen | numbers | integers |
| Z | Zentrum | http://planetmath.org/GroupCentrecenter | http://planetmath.org/GroupCentrecenter (of a group) |