Weierstrass p
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Weierstrass p
The Weierstrass p (
), a stylized letter p, is used for the following mathematical concepts:
It is named after the German mathematician Karl Weierstrass.
Its Unicode code point is U+2118 (℘) where it is incorrectly named script capital p. It is in fact a lowercase letter, but this error is not corrected in later versions in order to keep the Unicode standard stable.[1]
The TeX code for this character is \wp .
