| Symbol | Description |
| ∑ | used indiacte the summation of an array or series of numbers, looks like capital sigma. |
| ∂ | used to signify the partial derivative, read as "partial", also "der", "dow", "die", it is not a greek letter |
| ⋅ | denotes scalar product between two vectors (dot product operator) |
| × | multiplication sign, but also used as cross product operator |
| ' | typically an italicized apostrophe, read as "prime"; for example, D' would be read as "d prime" |
| ' | read as "apostrophe" |
| ~ | read as "tilde" |
| @ | read as "at" |
| ` | read as "grave" or "grave accent" |
| # | read as "number" or "pound" |
| ^ | read as "caret" or "circumflex" |
| & | read as "ampersand" or "and" |
| * | read as "asterisk" |
| - | read as "hyphen" |
| { and } | read as "braces" |
| [ and ] | read as "brackets" |
| < and > | read as "angle brackets", or less than and greater than, respectively |
| 〈 and 〉 | Macaulay's brackets |
| : | read as "colon" |
| ; | read as "semicolon" |
| " | often two are used to wrap a statement, when used together read as "quotation marks" or "quotes" |
| / | read as "forward slash" or "virgule" |
| \ | read as "back slash" |
 | equivalent to |
| ∝ | proportional to |
| ⋅⋅⋅ or ... | read as "ellipsis", indicates that the terms in a series continue further. If no terms come after the dots, the terms continue forever |
| ∇ | three-dimensional del operator |
| ∮ | cyclic integral |
| → | typically in mathematical and engineering applications the right arrow symbol means "tends to", like x tends to go to infinity as y increases, for example. May be used in the form x → ∞, or c → 0, for example. |
| ℒ | stands for "the Laplace transform of ", see here for info about Laplace transforms |
| ∞ | infinity |