Weierstrass p

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Weierstrass p

Weierstrass p

The Weierstrass p (\wp\,), a stylized letter p, is used for the following mathematical concepts:

It is named after the German mathematician Karl Weierstrass.

Its Unicode code point is U+2118 where it is incorrectly named script capital p. It is in fact a lowercase letter, but this error is not corrected in later versions in order to keep the Unicode standard stable. [1]

The TeX code for this character is \wp .

[edit] References

  1. ^ decodeunicode.org - U+2118 SCRIPT CAPITAL P.
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