Math Symbol Tier List

[@SmileyMPV]

“Math symbol tier list” -Doesn’t include the plus or minus symbol -Doesn’t include the equality symbol -Includes random Greek letters but not n -Includes speed of light and Planck’s constant -Wildly disrespects the brilliant infinity symbol Tell me you’re a physicist without telling me you’re a physicist

[@ensiehsafary7633]

😂😂 this comment was so halirious

[@ensiehsafary7633]

And also he didn't include e 💀

[@georgegkoumas5026]

Wait with Greek "n" you mean η or ν?

[@SmileyMPV]

@@georgegkoumas5026 I mean he includes random greek letters that don't have any particular meaning in math, while he doesnt even include the Latin letter "n" which is the most common symbol to describe a natural number, the most fundamental object in all of mathematics.

[@georgegkoumas5026]

@@SmileyMPV oh yeah of course he underrepresents latin letters by a lot but I misunderstood what you wrote and thought you meant "greek n" Bro just included the whole Greek alphabet for no reason and it looks weird to me because I am Greek and we use more latin letters most of the time instead of Greek (well part of the reason is that many "reserved" greek letters are used in rare scenarios like capital Π bust still we use variables "a b" more often than "α β")

[@GMPranav]

"omega is not used very often" Entirety of electrical engineering community crying in a corner.

[@unholycrusader69]

This opinion will see a lot of _resistance_ from electrical engineers.

[@jan_Eten]

@@unholycrusader69 so funny /s

[@redroach401]

@@unholycrusader69 lol

[@ayasegoingmeow]

@@unholycrusader69 haha

[@nelsblair2667]

Mechanical engineering and statistics similarity mourn

[@theimmux3034]

when a physicist thinks they know math literature

[@joanchirinos7531]

This feels like a math symbol tier list for people who don’t like/know math

[@joanchirinos7531]

Ohhhhh you’re a physicist, that makes sense

[@miikamartin7026]

@@joanchirinos7531 Too real. How can anyone hate mu???????? Also this guy is for sure right-handed.

[@evansaschow]

@@miikamartin7026even for physicists, how do you hate μ, when its the micro symbol?

[@caleb.39]

In my opinion, the square symbol is S-tier as it's often used to show you've just proven something mathematically. It's like the mic drop of math

[@frittex]

exactly

[@vinicus508]

Yeah, it just feels REAL good to finally write that box.

[@muisnotforyou1]

I usually just write QED, I think it's kinda adorable to use the box, like "I'm done now, let me draw a little doodle".

[@CarlJohnson-mi2zo]

​@@muisnotforyou1same for me, also QED is really badass because it's in latin

[@Dennis-gg9yv]

square is also used for necessity in modal logic! Its rlly cute IMO

[@benjaminstenseng4013]

I got kinda triggered when lamda didnt get S... Its such a great symbol! It takes no time to write, and calculating wavelength was, imo, the most fun part of physics. And also... Eigenvalues! That being said, really enjoyed😁😊

[@NoNameAtAll2]

also lambda calculus

[@strail8886]

and it’s importance in the Poisson distribution

[@henry-db]

When I was a child, my father showed me the lambda letter as the "wave length", in that moment I fell in love. Whenever I have to name anything, I call it lambda.

[@sarthak-ti]

Maybe a stupid excuse, but I don’t like lambda because when I write it I confuse it with an x

[@thewelcomer5698]

and Lagrange multipliers...

[@wenhanzhou5826]

I once used "nu" and "v" in a mechanics assignment. The physics was correct but overall it wasn't enough to pass because the professor thought I messed up with the units.

[@MrPSolver]

Hence F tier

[@PMA_ReginaldBoscoG]

That's why I write 'v' in cursive writing.

[@swausgebouwen143]

I give nu a subtle outward curve on each tip. Other than that it resembles the v. But yeah I think people might not notice that nuance if they were marking the work. But at least I can tell the difference when I'm taking notes

[@spinothenoooob6050]

That is because you don't know to write😂😂😂

[@pinklemonade6597]

Infinity going in c tier was criminal

[@morbedhorse]

EXACTLY, even though it is simple, it is such a mysterious and unique symbol

[@vintagegamer7027]

Φ is an S tier symbol in my opinion because it's often used to describe isomorphisms and homomorphisms which are fundamental in abstract algebra. σ,ω are also commonly used to denote automorphisms in Galois theory.

[@isios]

I love you

[@vintagegamer7027]

@@isios

[@user4241]

Are we all going to ignore that phi also represents the golden number?

[@dartamore8543]

phi is GOD tier, golden number !

[@clorx1]

it's so good they made a second one

[@patrickgambill9326]

Chi as A tier but infinity as C tier is a spicy math take.

[@leonardofacchin1452]

I met the "for all" and "there exists" symbols yesterday. They were still crying in a corner for having been forgotten in this video :)

[@kevinstreeter6943]

They are used in proofs. He is an engineer.

[@tannersundwall12]

@@kevinstreeter6943/forall is used in much more than just proofs

[@the_nuwarrior]

​@@kevinstreeter6943elitism

[@adreezy6576]

Ahh yes discrete math

[@sauercrowder]

I would really like to see the triangle of circle "therefore" symbol from logic

[@nickmgls6523]

As a Greek I am blessed with the power to draw all these fancy symbols

[@thomasrichter4726]

The discrespect to the Greek alfabet is unreal lmao

[@birbylikesfox1032]

As a non Greek I am blessed with the power to draw all these fancy symbols

[@David280GG]

As a non greek i love transcribing these symbols Θ Þ, Χ CH, Φ PH, Υ Y, Ξ KS or X

[@annxu8219]

ζξ how write these

[@David280GG]

@@annxu8219 z and ks

[@MiT_Mankind-in-Training]

Your reasoning behind the rankings is freaking hilarious

[@benburdick9834]

Putting lower-case omega below upper-case omega. I'm unsubscribing, smh my head.

[@MrPSolver]

Upper case omega sexy af tho

[@kekskekskeks112]

Omega allways reminds me of God of War and omega is just a w with 2nd order interpolation turned on, so Omega > omega

[@RinkRat91]

... (shaking my head) my head?

[@Qaptyl]

@@RinkRat91LOL OUT LOUD!!!

[@MultiWilliam15]

“partial derivative” symbol is also the boundary operator in topology so i think it deserves to be S-tier ://

[@freeman10000]

I like the partial derivative symbol because when I learned partial derivatives I thought I was super cool and smart.

[@VidNudistKid]

My calculus class collectively decided to call that symbol Zebulon

[@eterty8335]

​@@VidNudistKidwhere did y'all get that name from? it sounds interesting

[@VidNudistKid]

@@eterty8335 I'm not sure. Maybe the town of Zebulon, Georgia? Someone just suggested it and the rest of the class of 17-21-year-olds liked it.

[@nahblue]

\Sigma is s-tier for sure. (Multiple reasons)

[@alexanderlomashvili8501]

you are dead wrong on almost everything in tier list how dare you

[@DanilegoPlays]

The disrespect with delta. It's so satisfying to write. Also capital delta wasn't even there

[@warmpereer65]

when he rank delta to the lowest am pretty sure he is only a mathematician. delta is commonly used in structural engineering when finding deflections of a structure

[@samistheman32]

The riemann zeta function is superior, you're insane

[@UnknownBeast41]

The zeta and Xi symbols are used a lot most prominent would be Riemann zeta function ! Xi as substitution variable or something in physics.

[@shiina_mahiru_9067]

My first instinct to some of these symbols: \chi is the character of a finite-dimensional representation of a group over a field \Lambda is the ring of symmetric functions (or exterior power) \lambda is (of course) eigenvalue or integer partition \mu is (also) an integer partition \zeta is a root of unity \sigma is a permutation \eta is the unit (of adjoint functors) \epsilon is the counit (of adjoint functors) \wp is used (almost exclusively) as the Weierstrass elliptic function (which is not in my expertise), but I reserve it as the powerset symbol when doing HW (due to the shortness of the code) ! stands for uniqueness the square stands for QED \times is Cartesian product (or product in any category) g is a group element k is a field (probably of characteristic zero, or algebraically closed) \iota is inclusion (or injective homomorphism/function) \pi is projection (or surjective homomorphism/function) \partial means boundary (e.g. \partial D^2 = S^1) \kappa is curvature (or, in algebraic geometry, the residue field associated to a local ing) \omega is an arbitrary complex number \int is used for (co)end (to be honest, majority of mathematicians probably don't know well about this categorical concept, myself included)

[@cjayy1]

Spot the pure mathematician

[@emmafountain2059]

God you know how cool it would be if LaTeX was more widely supported? Like I get youtube, but its not even in Google Docs. Sorry, your comment just reminded me of the profound sadness that comes from trying to write equations with copy pasted unicode symbols

[@Mystery_Biscuits]

“xi is like wearing a purple hat with a feather in it” is the most true statement I’ve ever heard

[@josephcasella1075]

The fact that the d'Alembert operator didn’t get S tier is crazy to me. I love that someone was like, “well, we use a ∇ for a Laplacian which takes second partials of 3 special dimensions and it’s a triangle. So if we’re doing 3 special and 1 temporal, might as well make it a square for 4”

[@josephcasella1075]

Honestly tho, a lot of these ratings are kind of cursed

[@oni8337]

lol it used to be called a "quabla" so theres that

[@parl8150]

yoooo, thanks for the help! I am writing my thesis and E tier was especially helpful! P.S. yeah, for me as a mathematician every other tier wasn't really remarkful. P.P.S. I will use "coat hanger" symbol P.P.P.S. If anybody is interested, my thesis is about random walks in a dynamic random environments P.P.P.P.S. The "coat hanger" symbol is called Ypsilon

[@SuryaBudimansyah]

Yepsilon?

[@SuryaBudimansyah]

Also how many more P.s that you need?

[@parl8150]

@@SuryaBudimansyah thought about adding few P.S’s to indicate where in paper I have used this holy symbol

[@SiqueScarface]

13:00 It's a Fraktur upper case I, hence it is used for imaginary numbers, if you are using Fraktur upper case letters for number fields like R for real numbers and C for complex numbers.

[@bartroberts1514]

Three years later, this video is still making watchers stupider just by clicking on it.

[@heavenpad-]

i am very confused on how a written out "mu" and "nu" are supposed to look anything alike to the point where its hard to distinguish. a written out "mu" looks like a "u" with a tail and a written out "nu" looks like a wavey italic "v"

[@TazerXI]

And then doesn't do the same with chi, which imo looks a lot closer to x than mu does to nu

[@chao3948]

it's the name of the letters in the greek alphabet godammit why are math people so stupid

[@ethhics]

Ikr what a shit list😂

[@asherpa4u]

once i got into the rhythm; thumbs up and downing along...; the humor began to creep in. I began to catch myself lol-ing, and by 13:40… dude... sparkels, I lol-ed hard for a solid 5 secs. Thanks for the riffs dude!

[@malthe1210]

My man really put mu in F tier but gave a shitty low-res dot B tier smh

[@AlexHunter235]

Damn, when this video started I thought maybe I was in the right place. But once the omega came up and you didn't immediately say, "it looks like boobs"... I knew I had a lot of growing up to do and that I don't belong here.

[@risuleia3982]

"this is just like 2 snakes fighting or something"

[@isshintheguy4172]

Im a big fan of the flaccid d for partial derivatives. It always feels nice to write.

[@jackp4447]

I’ve always called it del, but after hearing “flaccid d” I think I’m going to have to permanently adopt that as its name

[@sauercrowder]

​​@@jackp4447 del is a different symbol... He used the name "nabla" in this video.

[@danielbb20]

You scream physics the moment you placed Psi, and h bar (modified Planck constant) on S tier. The amount of times I saw those symbols in my semiconductor physics class made me sick. But then you placed Mu which is electron mobility in semiconductor physics in F tier but that symbol is just used for everything at this point.

[@jankkhvej434]

im annoyed how mu looks like a u with a line when it’s actually meant to look like a M with a smooth, curved middle part

[@af9466]

The thing that looks like ♈️ is Greek upsilon. I saw a very similar one (the left horn slightly shorter, may be the font I think?) in the 'applied & program-oriented logics' lectures. It represented a "totally ambivalent quasiary predicate" (not sure if I translated it correctly tho)

[@freeman10000]

Isn't the symbol an astrological one? For Aries ♈️

[@af9466]

@@freeman10000 yeah, it is

[@Kaspa969]

My favorite Greek alphabet tier list video 💀

[@timsudmeier6482]

I totally disagree with your choices. Kappa is not destinguishable from k when written by hand, so F tear and where is lower case t? and mu does'nt look like nu because of the long line on the left. mu must be B tear because it's used alongside lambda when scaling Vectors in Linear Algebra. With your S tear I agree

[@eleutheriakouin]

Never let bro cook again

[@JarekHardysz]

15:41 That is the Zeta function symbol for the Riemann Hypothesis and it is kinda important

[@warmpereer65]

this is the type of video without telling you are a physicist or engineer

[@migueldomingos4570]

"now infinity is pretty big" no shit, really?

[@Gamer2002]

epsilon in D tier is criminal

[@aureeel]

sigma as well, there are so things many wrong with this video

[@ruben6120]

z should be in F tier, just because it looks like 2 when you write it down and can be very confusing in equations

[@satoth]

I have "y" above "x", "x" is just an unknown number(s) you should find, while "y" is also used in functions (in very often situations we just use "y" instead of f(x))

[@ankat_]

As a greek, I see this as an absolute win

[@barbarosbozkurt758]

I use xi (don't have greek keyboard downloaded) just to mess with my teachers who are trying to understand my exams

[@Bruh-bk6yo]

Dude really rated differential, gradient and integral A instead of SSS.

[@CamEron-nj5qy]

16:19 I've never seen this symbol before. Someone please help explain / link to what it means.

[@Dearme-f8z]

What it do?

[@macchiato_1881]

Aleph is S-tier mate. Look at that pretentiousness. That grandeur. And it represents infinity better than *actual* infinity. It's like a smug N.

[@leonardosantoni9341]

What about euler's number?

[@UnknownBeast41]

Bro though there are ways you can write \mu u and v differently such that they look different lol but yea great video.. Id personally construct my list based on where the symbol is used and its structure to a lesser degree

[@MrPSolver]

When your writing is as awful as mine everything gets confused 😂

[@13anomalous16]

what's funny about x y z being in a b c respectively is that every multi axis machine tool is built with rotational axes in the exact same arrangement. The A axis is always colinear with the X axis, the B axis with the Y axis, and the C with the Z axis, it's just the standard.

[@jackys_handle]

7:42 that's just a latin v. Regular old v. Vee. For velocity, or vector, A tier.

[@sohammakim9178]

6:00 First time I saw lambda was when I was studying eigenvectors and eigenvalues. that weird?

[@soraqt_08]

So u just ranking the Greek alphabet plus some other symbols for math... Nice!

[@Iyukazi123]

2:53 If you did not realize, the English alphabet is literally a simplified version of these symbol. So, the English alphabet should be criticized, not them.

[@sillygoofygoofball]

“who made this symbol” …. the greeks???

[@terryrodgers9560]

Brotha, delta and the differential symbol are S tier, they instantly convey so much information on what you are doing if you understand them, in my opinion, the notation is genius.

[@lukasjetu9776]

that coat hanger symbol is probably an "upsilon", i searched that

[@lexs7218]

the mystery one feels like a capitol gamma

[@AzureSpike]

9:22 capital xi symbol, used in googological xi function 12:55 imaginary symbol, used to represent imaginary axis or part of the coordinate on the complex plane 15:37 zeta symbol, used in riemann zeta function 17:02 real symbol, used to represent real axis or part of the coordinate on the complex plane

[@EvieOConnorxoxo]

Controversial but lower case omega is the bane of my existence. Upper case is great though

[@iroegorchannel9335]

You're mostly correct about zeta, only that you forgot about Riemann zeta function (no idea what it is, I just know it exists)

[@SuperShadowify]

EPSILON IN D TIER? DELTA IN E? dear lord this tier list enraged me good work

[@dartamore8543]

Lol he swapped their ranks

[@fac7orcosplay]

The "Laplace Transformation" symbol should be S-tier without any doubt, this list is more like a "Physics symbol tier list" rather than maths

[@139-b7j]

The variation in thickness in V is inspired from fountain pens where downstrokes were thicker than upstrokes.

[@VuNam_MCVN]

2:59 my writing style is ups and downs, what are you talking about😢

[@overpower3382]

Me waiting for him to represent the plus symbol.

[@Gomamon64]

You can use the mystery symbol for volume if all Vs are taken for velocity and Potential energy

[@matpedros7692]

x is literally the soul of math!! You’ve should put it on S tier

[@marmarbinkz7051]

What is the symbol at 8:53, after C

[@panosparaskevopoulos5043]

Bro, fr, im Greek and I fell offended: latins literally stole almost every letter of ours and those 5 that still remain unique to our alphabet are in the f! By the way μ = m, ν = n, υ = either y or u

[@gxxthicflower]

im in algebra 2 and ive hardly ever encountered any of these (except xyz and fgh of course) the Σ symbol scares me though. i see it all the time on my older sister's calculus homework and it just feels intimidating. in a good way

[@nady2296]

The sigma symbol used to scare me too when I was in highschool but now I’m so used to it, I wouldnt imagine writing long sums without it.

[@trigfunction]

infinite series are kinda scary tbh

[@nimifhana]

Learned it this year for Calculus I, and yeah I love it and hate it 😂

[@pinklemonade6597]

Justice for \delta

[@fallacywrecker4960]

😂 I was forced to open Netflix after this video. Man, this guy is too much 😂

[@albertogomez-casado5527]

I kind of miss heavy hitters here: where are i, e, and Tau? And the tipped over capital A "for all" and flipped E "exists"? And the beautiful circular integrals? How dare you spend even a second discussing the pretentious unwritable wiggles and miss those?

[@albertogomez-casado5527]

No, seriously, the "wiggles" are Sub-Zero tier, together with ampersand, who can write that by hand?

[@MrPSolver]

Knew I was missing something 😂

[@WatermelonQeed]

The Coathanger Redemtion should be a movie

[@ezrachen8976]

x & y have to be S-tier if they’re as essential as you say they are (and they are)

[@tatostatu1477]

imagine ranking symbol of zeta function in E tier...

[@thechosenone7400math]

As an infinity lover, If I didn’t read the description I would commit arson

[@MrMentholSlim]

lambda is just a reflected air jordan

[@anno_nym]

* Puts infinity to C-Tier for lack of creativity * * also puts two x-shape symbols into A-Tier *

[@morbedhorse]

My s tiers Omega (capital) Gamma Sigma (Capital) Phi Pi (Small) Integral The L shaped symbol for arc length Lambda Theta That one symbol for micro Zeta (the miniature one) Infinity Both versions of delta Aleph The symbol for real numbers

[@tommyso3823]

Those I really hate is just mu, nu, eta and small omega as now I am going through some fluid mechanics courses and oh boy how people always like to put these Greek alphabets together with u, v, n and w. It is so confusing

[@A320step-official]

13:05 its the cute little two-snakes fighting over the imaginary part of z symbol

[@Zeusbeer]

I shit myself every time nu is used together with a generic u or v

[@abcde12490]

You forgot the i of imaginary numbers! Would've ranked it as S tier for sure

[@AnthonyDuah-gr5gk]

X is nothing special? Oh forgive him Father, for he ain't got no clue, he a foo

[@fanalysis6734]

How does the stem of \mu not distinguish it from u

[@giacomomosele2221]

I literally spent 20 minutes of my life watching some random guy on youtube ranking mathematical symbols. I should probably reconsider my life choices.

[@MrPSolver]

I spent 2 hours of my life ranking math symbols. I probably should too.

[@ChezburgerLeaf]

I looked up the mysterious symbol and it came up with the symbol for the aries constellation 😂

[@freeman10000]

♈️

[@ChaseMayProductions]

Infinity in C is crazy, everything in B should be in A or higher, and phi is the superior theta.

[@simonramoner]

Btw what is than the mystery symbol?

[@Zeusbeer]

One time when I was studying aerodyanamics for a course, Anderson, writer of fundamentals of aerodynamics, used Xi for vorticity of a fluid. Which I found super based as it kind of looks like a swirly / rotating line

[@jackgroth5886]

The two sided fishing hook one is called upsilon 😊

[@freeman10000]

Aries ♈️

[@kevinelezi7089]

Infinite not in S 💀 That sign after calculus disappears. I miss a lot the way it was representing such an unreachable number.

[@valdcraft3471]

This guy's logic is irrefutable.

[@thorebergmann1986]

You start with the most basic symbol and put it in the 2nd highest rank... there is not much to expect after that anymore

[@NaneRulz]

Why don't you do a meme video ranking differential equations as well.

[@MrPSolver]

I just might do so

[@terriekellogg8337]

W

[@homerthompson416]

SMH at the lack of commutative diagram arrows Also no wedge product? No tensor product?