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