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Posted 4 December
2008
GLOSSARY
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This Glossary is an alphabetized list of words and phrases used in Mathematical English. It includes several kinds of entries:
¨ Technical words in math that have two or more widely-used definitions.
¨ Technical words that suffer from semantic contamination.
¨ Words such as if, and, and all that are used to communicate the logical structure of math arguments. These are also discussed on the math reasoning page, but all are cross referenced.
Most technical words in math are not included. The best sources for technical words and phrases in math are: