U
Stanislaw M. Ulam
Ulug-Beg
umbilic uhm ,bil ik
uncertainty uhn 'sirt uhn tee
uncia 'uhn shee uh
Plural: unciae 'uhn shee ee
ungula 'uh[ng] gyuh luh
union 'yoon yuhn
unique yoo 'neek
unit 'yoo nuht
unity 'yoo nuhd ee
unknot 'uhn ,naht
upsilon 'uhp suh ,lon
V
Charles J. de la Vallée-Poussin M. Deleglise 1866-1962
value 'val yoo
J. van de Lune
J. C. van der Corput
Balthasar van der Pol
B. L. Van der Waerden vahn duhr 'vair duhn
variable 'vehr ee uh buhl
variate 'vehr ee uht
variation ,vehr ee 'ay shuhn
vector 'vek tuhr
John Venn 1834-1923 ven
Pierre François Verhulst
vertex 'vuhr teks
vertical 'verd uh kuhl
Pierre François Viete 1540-1603 vee 'et
Vijaganita (Bhuskara)
Leonardo da Vinci dah 'veen chee
vinculum 'vi[ng] kyuh luhm
Ivan M. Vinogradov
virgule 'vuhr ,gyoo uhl
virtual 'vuhr chu wuhl
vis viva wees 'wee wah
François Marie Arouet de Voltaire
volume 'vahl yuhm
Helge von Koch 'hel guh fon kohk
John von Neumann 1903-57 jahn fon ,noy mahn
Karl Georg Christian von Staudt 1798-1867 kahrl gay 'orhk 'kris tee ahn fon shtowt
R. D. von Sterneck
C. F. von Weizacker
vortex 'vohr ,teks
vortices 'vohr tuh ,seez
W
John Wallis 1616-1703 'wahl uhs
T. Wang
Gregory Wannier 1911-1983 'von ee ay
Pierre Laurent Wantzel 1814-48
Edward Waring 1734-98
Waukesha waw ,kee shah
Wilhelm Weber 1804-91 'vay buhr
Daniel Webster 1782-1852
Waloddi Weibull 1887-1979 va lod ih 'vay bul
Weibull Distribution Americans pronounce this wye bull
Karl Weierstrass 1815-97 'vi uhr shtrass
André Weil 1906-1998 'ahN dray vayl
well-posed 'wel ,pohzd
Caspar Wessel 1745-1818 'kahs ,pahr 'ves uhl
George Wetherill
Herman Weyl 1885-1955 vyl
The Whetstone of Witte (Recorde)
Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947 'hwyt hed
Hassler V. Whitney
Johan Widman fl. 1489 ,vit mahn
Norbert Wiener 1894-1964 'vee nuhr
Kurt Wiesenfeld
Eugene Paul Wigner 1902- 'wig nuhr
Albert Wilansky
Andrew Wiles 1953- 'an droo wylz
William of Occam (also Ockham)
John Wilson 1741-93
Ken Wilson
Jack Wisdom
witch wich
Ludvig Josef Johann Wittgenstein 1889-1951 'loot vik 'yoh zef 'vit guhn ,shtyn
Alan Wolf
Stephan Wolfram
Christopher Wren
Wronskian 'vrahn skee uhn
X
x eks x-axis eks 'ak suhss x-coordinate eks koh 'ord uh nuht xy-plane eks wy playn
xi zy Greek: ksee
Y
y wy y-axis wy 'ak suhss y-coordinate wy koh 'ord uh nuht
Samuel D. Yates
yocto- 'yok tuh
yojana
James Yorke
yotta- 'yot uh
H. Peyton Young
Emperor Yu c2200 B.C.
Yuki Indians
Z
Zeno of Elea c495-35 'zee noh
Zenodorus c200 B.C.
zepto- 'zep toh
zero ,zir oh zero-sum game ,zir oh ,suhm ,gaym
zeta 'zay duh
zetta- 'zet uh
Nikolai Zhukovsky
zilch zilch
Zorn's lemma 'zohrnz 'lem uh