Greek
Β — Beta function
Γ — Angular momentum, Gamma function, Christoffel symbols
Δ — A macroscopic change in the value of a variable, Laplace operator, Delta particle
Θ — Heaviside step function
Λ — Iwasawa algebra, Lorentz transformation, Lambda Hyperon
Ξ — Cascade Hyperon
Π — Product
Σ — Sum, Surface, Sigma Hyperon
Φ — Alternative symbol for Quantum mechanical wavefunction
Ψ — Quantum mechanical wavefunction
Ω — Chaitin's constant, Ohm, Solid angle, Omega Hyperon
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“Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Certainly for us of the modern world, with its conflicting claims, its entangled interests, distracted by so many sorrows, so many preoccupations, so bewildering an experience, the problem of unity with ourselves in blitheness and repose, is far harder than it was for the Greek within the simple terms of antique life. Yet, not less than ever, the intellect demands completeness, centrality.”
—Walter Pater (18391894)
“I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once more only the words Orpheus, Linus, Musæus,those faint poetic sounds and echoes of a name, dying away on the ears of us modern men; and those hardly more substantial sounds, Mimnermus, Ibycus, Alcæus, Stesichorus, Menander. They lived not in vain. We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)