Timeline for Running out of Algebraic Symbols
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| Aug 3, 2015 at 13:09 | answer | added | paul garrett | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 8:46 | comment | added | Faheem Mitha |
If you are using LaTeX (and you probably are) it might help to use simple macros as a layer of abstraction. Then these macros can represent what you mean. For example \DeclareMathOperator{\set}{\mathbf{S}}. Then you can change \set to be something else if you desire.
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| Feb 2, 2015 at 10:16 | vote | accept | shaw2thefloor | ||
| Feb 2, 2015 at 10:07 | comment | added | shaw2thefloor | Given the conservatism of the people who are going to be my examiners, I think using Cyrillic would be very much frowned upon. But maybe for a more progressive audience? An interesting suggestion in any case. | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 16:17 | comment | added | Iwillnotexist Idonotexist |
I have actually heard of the Cyrillic alphabet being used facetiously абвгґдеєжзиіїйклмнопрстуфхцчшщюяь, but I wouldn't advise it, as there are only a few letters that would certainly not be confused with Latin small-caps, lower- or upper-case letters, namely гґдєжзилпфцчшщюяь. Even so, two pairs of Cyrillic letters differ only by a hook: гґ and шщ. (Also, this is Ukrainian, for Russian it's slightly different)
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| Feb 1, 2015 at 15:01 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | You may want to clarify matters with your supervisor: is he really objecting to any symbol being reused anywhere in the thesis (an unreasonable objection, in my opinion) or only with some specific instances in which you've reused a symbol in a context which could actually be ambiguous or confusing (reasonable)? Maybe it's not as big a deal as you think. | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 6:26 | comment | added | WetlabStudent | On top of all the advice given below, hats, tildes, bars, primes, arrows etc. can be placed on top of any symbol to great a new one. | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 6:22 | comment | added | WetlabStudent | @choener It is a perfect fit here, it is a question about writing academic papers and spans pretty much all STEM fields. | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 18:05 | answer | added | Inquisitive | timeline score: -6 | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 17:50 | answer | added | Giacomo Alessandroni | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 16:31 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/561562532650176512 | ||
| Jan 31, 2015 at 15:44 | answer | added | E.P. | timeline score: 31 | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 12:20 | answer | added | O. R. Mapper | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 12:13 | comment | added | choener | The question is probably not a good fit here; but using a fresh symbol everytime you need a symbol is terrible advice. Same things should be named the same, similar things with similar names. Don't you have to further transform X and Y? | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 12:12 | answer | added | just-learning | timeline score: 20 | |
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| Jan 31, 2015 at 11:50 | history | asked | shaw2thefloor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |