Q
Q E D kyoo ee dee quod erat demonstrandom kwawd 'e raht day mawn 'strahn dum
quadrangle 'kwah dra[ng] guhl
quadrant 'kwah druhnt
quadratic kwah 'dra dik
quadratrix 'kwahd ruh triks
quadrature 'kwah druh chuhr
quadric 'kwah drik
quadrillion kwuh 'dril yuhn
quantifier 'kwahn tuh fy uhr
quantita, in quam cum multiplicetur diameter, provenient circumferentia kwahn 'tee tah een kwahm mul ti pli 'kay tur di ah 'may ter proh 'ven yent keer kum fe rayn 'tee ah
quartic 'kwawr dik
quartile 'kwawr tyl
quasiperiodic 'kwa ,zy ,pir ee 'ah dik
quaternion kwuh 'tuhr nee uhn
Raymond Queneau
Lambert Adolphe Quetelet kayt leh
queue kyoo
quincunx 'kwin ,ku[ng]ks
quintic 'kwin tik
quintillion kwin 'til yuhn
quod erat demonstrandom kwawd 'e raht day mawn 'strahn dum
quota 'kwoh tuh
quotient 'kwoh shuhnt
R
Rabdologia (Napier)
racines fausses
radian 'ray dee uhn
radical 'ra di kuhl
radius 'ray dee uhs
radix 'ray diks
Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887-1920
random 'ran duhm
Joseph Raphson fl. 1690
ratio 'ray ,shoh
rational 'rash nuhl
rationalize 'rash nuh ,lyz
Raum, Zeit, und Materie (Weyl)
ray ray
real reel
Rechnung (Apianus)
reciprocal ri 'sip ruh kuhl
Robert Recorde 1510-1558 re 'kord
rectangular ,rek 'ta[ng] yuh luhr
rectifiable 'rek tuh fy uh buhl
recurring ri 'kuhr i[ng]
recursive ri 'kuhr siv
reductio ad absurdum re duk tee oh ad ahd sur dum
reflection ri 'flek shuhn
refraction ri 'frak shuhn
region 'ree juhn
regular 'reg yuh luhr regular curve 'reg yuh luhr kuhrv
Karl Reinhardt
remainder ri 'mayn duhr
removable ri 'moov uh buhl
repeated ri 'peed uhd
repunit
residue 're zuh ,doo
Joachim Reticus
Henry Rhind
rho roh
rhombus 'rahm buhss
ribbon 'ri buhn
Ricci 'Reet chee
Louis-Paul-Emile Richard
Charles F. Richter
P. H. Richter
C. J. Rieger
D. Riemann
George Friedrich Bernhard Riemann 1826-66 'ree ,mahn Riemann hypothesis 'ree ,mahn hy ,pah thuh sis
right ryt
J. Ritt
Ronald Rivest
Douglas Robertson
Julia Robinson 1919-85
Richard Rochberg
rodeo 'roh dee ,oh
Michel Rolle 1652-1719 rol
root rut
rose rohz
J. Barkley Rosser
roulette roo 'let
round rownd rounding 'rownd i[ng]
route root
Christoff Rudolff
David Ruelle
Paolo Ruffini 1765-1822
Carle David Tolmé Runge 1856-1927 karl 'day vid ? 'ru[ng] uh
Runge-Kutta method 'ru[ng] uh 'kud uh ,meth uhd
Bertrand Russell 1872-1970 'ruhs uhl
Ernest Rutherford
S
saddle 'sa duhl
sagitta suh 'ji duh
St. Augustine saynt 'aw gus teen
Lee Sallows
Gregorie de Sainte Vincent
George Salmon
scalar 'skay luhr
scalene 'skay ,leen
Scherk's surface
Erwin Schrödinger
Manfred Schroeder 'schray duhr
Schwarz schvartz
Karl Schwarzschild
scytale
sec secant 'see kant
secant 'see kant
sech ,hy per ,bahl ik 'see kant
sector 'sek tuhr
sectorgram 'sek tuhr ,gram
segment 'seg muhnt
Segrè 'se gray
semiperimeter ,sem igh ,puh 'rim uhd uhr
Seneca
septillion sep 'til yuhn
seqt
sequence 'see kwuhns
series 'sir eez
set set
sexagesimal ,sek suh ,jez uh muhl
sextant 'sek stant
sextic 'sek stik
sextillion sek 'stil yuhn
sgn signum 'sig nuhm
Adi Shamir
William Shanks
Claude E. Shannon 'shan uhn
Lloyd Shapley
Frans van Shooten 1625-60
Marin Shubik
Siddhantas
side syd
Sierpinski suhr 'pin skee Sierpinski carpet suhr 'pin skee 'kahr pet
sieve siv
sigma 'sig muh
sign syn
significant sig 'nif i kuhnt
signum 'sig nuhm
similar ,sim uh luhr
simple ,sim puhl
simplex 'sim ,pleks
simply 'sim plee
Thomas Simpson 1710-61 'sim suhn
simultaneous ,sy muhl 'tay nee uhss
Yasha Sinaï
sin sine syn
sine syn
singular 'si[ng] gyuh luhr
sinh ,hy per ,bahl ik syn
sinusoidal ,sy nuh 'soyd uhl
skew skyoo
S. Skewes
Skewes' number
Daniel Sleator
slide rule 'slyd ,rool
slope slohp
David Slowinski
Steven Smale
David Smith
Henry J. S. Smith
Willebrod von Roijen Snell
solidus 'sah luh duss
Ray J. Solomonoff
solution suh 'loo shuhn
Mary Somerville 1780-1872
Sopra le scoperte di dadi (Galileo)
sphere sfir
spherical 'sfir uh kuhl
E. Spiegal
Baruch Spinoza
spiral 'spy ruhl
squaring the circle 'skwer i[ng] thuh 'sur kuhl
stadia 'stay dee uh
stadium 'stay dee uhm
stationary 'stay shuh nehr ee
statistics stuh 'tis tiks
Jacob Steiner 1796-1863
Paul Steinhardt
Hugo Steinhaus
De Stella Nova (Kepler)
step function
Simon Stevin fl. 1585
Thomas Jan Stieltjes 1856-1894 'toh mahs yahn 'steel tyuhs
Michael Stifel c1487-1567
James Stirling
stochastic stoh 'kass tik
George Gabriel Stokes 1819-1903 stohks
strange attractor
strata 'stra duh
strategy 'stra duh jee
stratified 'stra duh fyd
stratify 'stra duh ,fy
stratum 'stra duhm
strophoid 'strah ,foyd
Dirk Struik
Student
suan pan (also suan p'an)
subset 'suhb set
subtend suhb 'tend
subtraction suhb 'trak shuhn
subtrahend 'suhb truh ,hend
sum suhm
Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportion: et Proportionalita (Pacioli)
Karl Sundham
surd suhrd
surface 'suhr fuhss
Gerald Sussman
James Joseph Sylvester 1814-97 sil 'ves tuhr
symmetric suh 'me trik
symmetry 'sim uh tree
T
Floris Takens
talus 'tay luhss
tan tangent 'tan jent
Chao Tang
tangent 'tan jent
tangential tan 'jen chuhl
tanh ,hy per ,bahl ik 'tan jent
Robert Tarjan
Alfred Tarski
Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia 1500-57 tahr 'tal yuh
tau tow
tautology taw 'tah luh jee
Tayl tayl
Brook Taylor 1685-1731 'tay luhr
Jean Taylor
Pafnuti Luovich Tchebycheff 1821-94 'cheb ih sheff (Chebyshev, Chebychev, Tchebysheff, Cebysev, Tshebychev)
telescopic ,tel uh ,skahp ik
telescoping ,tel uh 'skohp i[ng]
Madame de Tencin
tensor 'ten suhr
tera- 'tair uh
Herman J. J. te Riele
term tuhrm
terminating ,tuhr muh ,nayd i[ng]
ternary 'tuhr nuh ree
tetradic te 'trad ik
tetrahedron ,te truh 'hee druhn
tetrus ,te 'truhss
Thales of Miletus c634-548 'thay leez
Theano c 6th Century BC the o ,naw (e as in tetrus, not the word the) (Note: The ancient Greeks would have pronounced the th as t in top.)
theorem 'thir uhm
Theorie Analytique des Probabilities (Laplace)
theory 'thir ee
thermodynamics
theta 'thay duh
De Thiende (Stevin)
René Thom
Edwin L. Thomas
J. J. Thomson
William Thomson
thought thawt
William Thurston
tiling 'ty li[ng]
titanic ty 'ta nik titanic primes ty 'ta nik 'prymz
Johann Titius fl. 1780
Evangelista Torricelli 1608-47
torsion 'tor ,shuhn
torus 'tohr uhss
trace trayss
tractrix 'trak ,triks
Traité de Dynamique (d'Alembert)
Traité de Mécanique Céleste (Laplace)
Traité du Triangle Arithmétique (Pascal)
trajectory truh 'jek tuhree
transcendental ,tran 'sen ,dent uhl
transfinite trants 'fy nyt
transform (noun) 'trants ,fohrm
transform (verb) tranz 'fohrm
transformation ,trants fuhr 'may shuhn
transitive 'trant suh div
translation tran 'slay shuhn
transpose 'tranz pohz
trapezoid 'trap uh zoyd
trapezoidal ,trap uh 'zoyd uhl
traveling salesman problem
trefoil 'tre ,foyl
triangle 'try a[ng] guhl
triangulation try ,a[ng] gyoo 'lay shuhn
trigonometric ,trig uh nuh ,me trik
trigonometry ,trig uh 'nahm uh tree
trihedral try 'hee druhl
trillion 'tril yuhn
trinomial try 'noh mee uhl
Triparty en las science des nombres (Chuquet)
trisection try 'sek shuhn
trit trit
Johannes Trithemius fl. 1510
trivial 'tri vee uhl
Troy troy
truncate 'truh[ng] ,kayt
truncation truh[ng] 'kay shuhn
Tsu Ch'ang-chih 430-501
Alan Turing 'tur i[ng]
twin primes twin prymz