In seminars you often have to present mathematical formulas in English. To avoid common pronounciation mistakes, we have created this page, which gives the pronounciation of common mathematical expressions in English and German.
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Symbol | German | English |
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![]() | a Strich | a prime |
![]() | a Strich-Strich oder a zwei-Strich | a double-prime |
![]() | a Dach | a hat |
![]() | a Quer | a bar |
![]() | a Tilde | a tilde |
![]() | a Punkt | a dot |
Symbol | German | English (full) | English (short) |
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![]() | a gleich b | a equals b | |
![]() | a plus b | a plus b | |
![]() | a minus b | a minus b | |
![]() | a mal b | a times b | |
![]() | a durch b | (a divided by b) | a over b |
![]() | a Quadrat | a square | |
![]() | a hoch b | a to the power of b | a to the b |
![]() | der Betrag von a | the absolute value of a | the norm of a |
![]() | Kombinatorik: a über b (oder auch b aus a) | Combinatorics: a choose b (NOT a over b !) | |
![]() | a fakultät | a factorial |
Symbol | German ![]() | English (full) | English (short) |
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![]() | das Integral von a nach b von f über x | ... | |
![]() | f abgeleitet nach x | f derived with respect to x |
Symbol | German | English (full) | English (short) |
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![]() | eine 3-kreuz-4 Matrix M | a 3-by-4 matrix M | |
![]() | M transponiert | M transposed | |
![]() | die Inverse von M | the inverse of M | M inverse |
![]() | die Determinante von M | the determinant of M | |
![]() | die Spur von M | the trace of M |