Indie rock group Alt-J have been on the music scene since 2007 but it wasn't until 2012 when they dropped their debut album ...

Hamilton, and Gwil Sainsbury became household names as Alt-J when their debut album An Awesome Wave took off - but not ...

Perhaps the most well-known of the lost Greek letters is Digamma. Shaped like an F or a modern-day gamma with an extra stem, ...

The earliest Greek writing, known as Linear B, relied on syllabic symbols but was limited in flexibility. Around the 8th century BC, the Greeks transformed existing writing traditions. They devised an ...

Like Roman numerals, their system borrowed letters; like the Arabic numerals we still use, it only needed one symbol for each decimal place. In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters.

His narrative continues: “As time went on the sound and the form of the letters ... those symbols and used them to represent vowels. In this way, they devised a writing system that portrayed both ...

Today, the Greek alphabet serves as a source of international symbols in maths ... name the various strains of the virus by using Greek letters, to avoid naming any strains after countries ...

the White House shared a sophisticated-looking formula that includes Greek letters commonly used by economists. The problem with this, as experts were quick to point out, is that the symbols don't ...

the White House shared a sophisticated-looking formula that includes Greek letters commonly used by economists. The problem with this, as experts were quick to point out, is that the symbols don't ...

The etymology of such symbols is, of course, often punctuated by inevitably fuzzy interpretation. In “The Language of Mathematics,” Raúl Rojas gives us a survey, from the Greek cross (for the ...