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Inverted (=reflected) N
- To: Matthias Clasen <clasen@pong.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de>
- Subject: Inverted (=reflected) N
- From: Chris Rowley <C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 18:12:40 GMT
- Cc: math-font-discuss@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Barbara asked me to supply chapter-and-verse for this, so I thought I
would send it to this list.
I do not have acces to a library or MathSciNet at present, otherwise I
could find more refs in the group theory literature.
It is on p. 84 of the paper by D. Gorenstein in:
Finite Simple Groups, M B Powell, G Higman eds. Academic Press 1971
ISBN 012 563850 7
The glyph used there is, like \Qinv and \Ginv in mewmath.dtx, a
spindly sans serif: it would be interesting to know the history of why
such glyphs derived from letters are traditionally rendered in this
way.
Looking at these I noticed that these two (Q and F) are rotated (as is
the G in \Game), which is not what I would have understood from the
name `inv'. So should we call the reflected N \Nrot :-)? Or what?
chris