Comparison of the English and German language wiki page for math symbols.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glossary_of_mathematical_symbols&oldid=1342073856
and
https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liste_mathematischer_Symbole&oldid=266615032
To be fair, if you go to the linked “List of logic symbols” article that has a table with Latex, Unicode, and even HTML codes. But it’s only for logic symbols, no page for all mathematic symbols on the English Wikipedia as far as I can see, so no quick Ctrl+F searching for unicode/latex. :( And most other subsections don’t even have a link to such a list.
This is often the case for engineering or maths topics. The english one is just yapping about stuff, while the German is like “Here’s the formula you wanted my son”
I’ve always been disappointed in the English-language Wikipedia pages on mathematical topics - I’m actually going to try this.
Danke, Papa :)
Danke, meine fuhrer
Not sure if being downvoted for the boring old Germany = Nazis joke or for using improper grammar and spelling.
For next time: it’s mein Führer, because Führer is masculine gender word, not feminine. Another interpretation would have been you meant the plural, then it would have been grammatically correct. But since you only answered to the first comment, referencing multiple people would be unlikely.
… Yes I’m german, how did you know?
The English articles would be so much easier to use with
- bullets
- sortable tables
- numerals (1, 2, 3rd, 4th)
instead of paragraphs of wasteful and hard-to-scan prose, and the spelling-out of numbers 0-9. Unfortunately old publishing manuals-of-style rules are mostly used.
At least sentence-case headings and sometimes logical quotation’s used. I’d prefer Wikipiedia use Wiktionary’s lowercase article names for non-proper-nouns.
To be fair the article is called a glossary, so I guess it’s understandable. But if you click the switch language button it brings you to the German one with the table. Guess if we want a real equivalent in English somebody needs to create a new article for that.
