Etymology

Kronecker delta

Today it means: A binary function, written as δ with two subscripts, which evaluates to 1 when its arguments are equal, and 0 otherwise. Full definition →

Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

Named after German mathematician Leopold Kronecker (1823–1891)

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.