I love the fact that our precious λ symbol (for function abstraction) arose due to a series of typographical errors: www-users.mat.umk.pl/~adwid/materia
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A mathematician went to a typesetter that couldn't typeset a circumflex? This story seems a little tall to me
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Yeah, now that you say that, it seems like it might be fair to have some skepticism here.