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by seliopou
1668 days ago
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There is a reason Ξ is not used, at least as a complex variable. Say you wanna take the complex conjugate of Ξ. What would that look like? Now say you wanted to divide that by, say, Ξ. What would that look like? It looks like a mess of lines is what it looks like. |
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This is not a real concern; it was done by Barry Mazur as a joke, hoping to provoke Serge Lang into using his catchphrase "this notation sucks", so Mazur could present him with a prepared "This Notation Sucks" tee-shirt. See the Paul Vojta section of http://www.ams.org/notices/200605/fea-lang.pdf