Confusing Math Letters Examined

Alec Jacobson

November 12, 2009

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I once looked down at my Abstract Algebra notes and noticed how many letters of my hand written formulas and equations looked eerily alike. I wrote out a bunch of the really similar ones and was shocked by the long spectrum they spanned. I have elaborated that now. In doing so realizing that these letters and their similarities belong in a higher dimensional space, at least to really show their proximity. However, it is still see them lined up in one dimension. math letters written by hand 117Zz2zηζξδ∂2ασadq9φωwεE8θΦØ0Θ☉o⚬•⋅ I want to make an animation that twists and stretches a single curve into each of these sequentially.