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Principia Mathematica The ''Principia Mathematica'' (often abbreviated ''PM'') is a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics written by mathematician–philosophers Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell and published in 1910, 1912, and 1913. ...

'' (1910–1913). The second (but not the first) edition of Volume I has a list of notation used at the end.

Glossary

This is a glossary of some of the technical terms in ''Principia Mathematica'' that are no longer widely used or whose meaning has changed.

Symbols introduced in ''Principia Mathematica'', Volume I

Symbols introduced in ''Principia Mathematica'', Volume II

Symbols introduced in ''Principia Mathematica'', Volume III

Notes

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References

* Whitehead, Alfred North, and Bertrand Russell. ''Principia Mathematica'', 3 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1910, 1912, and 1913. Second edition, 1925 (Vol. 1), 1927 (Vols. 2, 3).

External links

List of notation in ''Principia Mathematica'' at the end of Volume I
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The Notation in ''Principia Mathematica''
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in a more modern notation (

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