According to Wikipedia Andrรฉ Weil (and maybe others) introduced the symbol for the empty set. They were inspired by the letter ร in the Norwegian and Danish alphabet. So, I guess you could argue that the symbol should be pronounced as it is pronounced in these alphabets.
In my experience most mathematicians just call the symbol "empty set".
Note also, that the Wikipedia article says that the symbol is not to be confused with the Greek letter or
.
According to Wikipedia Andrรฉ Weil (and maybe others) introduced the symbol for the empty set. They were inspired by the letter ร in the Norwegian and Danish alphabet. So, I guess you could argue that the symbol should be pronounced as it is pronounced in these alphabets.
In my experience most mathematicians just call the symbol "empty set".
Note also, that the Wikipedia article says that the symbol is not to be confused with the Greek letter or
.
According to Wikipedia Andrรฉ Weil (and maybe others) introduced the symbol for the empty set. They were inspired by the letter ร in the Norwegian and Danish alphabet. So, I guess you could argue that the symbol should be pronounced as it is pronounced in these alphabets.
In my experience most mathematicians just call the symbol "empty set".
Note also, that the Wikipedia article says that the symbol is not to be confused with the Greek letter or
.
Although not mathematics, I thought I would add that in the APL programming language the empty vector is represented by the symbol โฌ, which is pronounced "zilde".
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Another suggestion is you can also type: Alt + 0216.
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Method 1:
The โ symbol can be entered by going into "Symbols", choose "Mathematical Characters" and from the dropdown "Subset".
Method 2:
Type 2205 and then press "Alt + X".
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