Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

As if Greek letters weren't enough, physicists and mathematicians also like to make up tons of symbols, some of which look like the could actually be Greek letters!

Nabla is one of those: it was completely made up in modern times, and just happens to look like an inverted upper case delta to make things even more confusing!

Nabla means "harp" in Greek, which looks like the symbol.

Nope, it is not a Greek letter, notably it is not a lowercase delta. It is just some random made up symbol that looks like a letter D. Which is of course derived from delta, which is why it is all so damn confusing.

I think the symbol is usually just read as "D" as in "d f d x" for $\frac{\partial F(x,y,z)}{\partial x}$.

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