E
e ee
eccentricity ,ek sen 'tris uhd ee
ecliptic i 'klip tik
Arthur Stanley Eddington 1882-1944
Brother Edvin fl. 1240 e. g. exempli gratia means for example cf. i. e.
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 'iyn shtyn
Max Eisenstein
Elements (Euclid)
ellipse ih 'lips
ellipsis ih 'lip siss
ellipsoid ih 'lip soyd
elliptic ih 'lip tik
encyclopédistes
ENIAC 'ee nee ak
Enigma ih 'nig muh
entropy 'en truh pee
Entscheidungsproblem
Enumeratio linearum tertil ordinis (Newton)
epicycle 'e puh ,sy kuhl
Epimenides fl. c500 B.C. ep ih 'men ih deez
epsilon 'ep suh ,lahn
equal 'ee kwuhl
equation ih 'kway zhuhn
equidistant ee kwuh 'dis tuhnt
equilateral ,ee kwuh ,lad uh ruhl
Eratosthenes of Cyrene c276-c194 ,er uh 'tahs thuh neez sy 'ree nee
Paul Erdös 1913-97 powl 'ayr dish Erdös number 'ayr dish 'nuhm buhr
Erlangen Program air 'la[ng] en 'proh ,gram
Erode
Maurits Cornelis Escher 1898-1972 'mow rits kawr 'nah luhs 'es KHuhr English: 'esh uhr T. Estermann
eta 'ay duh
Etruscan Venus ee 'truhs kuhn 'vee nuhss
Euclidean yoo 'klid ee yuhn
Euclid of Alexandria ?330-275 Here's looking at yoo klid al eg 'zan dree uh
Euclid of Megara ?450-374 yoo klid 'meg uh ruh
Eudemus of Rhodes fl. c320 B.C. 'yoo duh muhs rohdz
Eudoxis of Cnidus 408-355 yoo'dahk suhs 'ny duhs
Leonard Euler 1707-83 'oy ler rhymes with toiler
Euler-Mascheroni constant 'oy ler mahs ke 'roh nee
Euler's number 'oy lerz 'nuhm buhr
evolute 'ev uh loot
exa- 'eks uh
excluded middle eks 'klood uhd 'mi dl
exclusion principle eks 'kloo zhuhn 'print suh puhl
exhaustions ig 'zaws chuns method of exaustions 'me thuhd uhv ig 'zaws chuns
exponent 'ek ,spoh nuhnt
exponential ,ek spuh 'nen chuhl
exterior ek 'stir ee uhr
extraneous ek 'strayn ee uhss
extrema ek 'stree muh
extreme ek 'streem
extremum ek 'streem uhm
F
factor 'fak tuhr
factorial fak 'tohr ee uhl
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit 1686-1736 'gahb ree el 'dahn yel 'fah ruhn hyt English: 'far uhn ,hyt fair game fair gaym
Michael Faraday 1791-1867 'my kuhl 'far uh ,day
Farey 'far ee Farey sequence 'far ee ,see kwuhns
Pierre Fatou fah 'too
Gustav Theodor Fechner 1601-65 'gus ,tahf 'tay oh ,dohr 'feKH nuhr
Mitchell J. Feigenbaum Feigenbaum's constant
femto- ,fem toh
Fereydoon
Pierre de Fermat 1601-65 fehr 'mah
Lodovico Ferrari 1522-65 ,loo daw 'vee koh fer 'rah ree
Scipione del Ferro 1465-1520
Richard Phillip Feynman 1918-88 'fyn man
Fibonacci c1170-after1240 ,fee buh 'nahch ee (also: Leonardo of Pisa)
finite 'fy nyt
George Francis FitzGerald 1851-1901 jorj 'fran suhss fits 'jer uhld
Fleury fluhr ee
Henry Fliegel
floating point 'flohd i[ng] poynt
Flos (Fibonacci)
fluxions 'fluhk shuhnz method of fluxions 'me thuhd uhv 'fluhk shuhnz
focal 'foh kuhl focal point 'foh kuhl poynt
foci 'foh ,sy
focus 'foh kuss
folium 'foh lee uhm
formula 'fohr myuh luh
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier 1768-1830 zhahN bah teest zhoh zef foo 'Ryay
Marjorie Fox
fractal 'frak tuhl
fraction 'frak shuhn
Michael Freedman
Fredrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege 1848-1625 'fray guh
frequency 'free ,kwuhn see
Augustin Jean Fresnel 1788-1827 fray 'nel
Alexander Friedmann 1888-1925 freed man
friendship problem 'fren ship ,prahb lem
Gemma Frisius 1505-55
Georg Frobenius
frusta 'fruhs tuh
frustum 'fruhs tuhm
function 'fuh[ng]k shuhn
functional 'fuh[ng]k shuhn uhl
fuzzy 'fuhz ee
G
Gabriel
Galilean gal i 'lay uhn
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 gal i 'lay oh gal i 'lay ee
George H. Gallup 1901-84
Évariste Galois 1811-32 gal 'wah cf. avoidupois
Francis Galton 1822-1911 'gawl tn
game gaym
gamma 'ga muh
Martin Gardner
James A. Garfield 1831-81
George Gasper
gauge invariance gayj ,in 'vair ee uhnts
Johann Gauss
Karl Friedrich Gauss 1777-1855 gowss
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac 1778-1850 gay l[ue] 'sak
Hans Wilhelm Geiger 1882-1945 'gy ger
gene jeen
generatrix ,jen uh ,ray triks
generatrices ,jen uh ,ray trih seez
Gerhard Gentzen
geodesic jee uh 'des ik
geodesy jee uh 'des ee
geometric ,jee uh 'me trik
Géométrie (Descarte)
geometry jee 'ahm uh tree
Sophie Germain 1776-1831 zhehR miN
Josiah Willard Gibbs 1839-1903 gibz
GIF jif (because its creators say so, even though the G is for graphics)
giga- 'gih guh or jih guh
glide glyd
global 'gloh buhl
gnomon 'noh muhn
gnomonic noh 'mahn ik
Kurt Gödel 1906-78 'g[oe]d uhl Should be something like girdle without the r English: 'gay duhl
Christian Goldbach 1690-1764 'gohl bahk Golbsp; 'gohl bahk Goldbach Conjecture 'gohl bahk kuhn ,jek chuhr
golden ratio 'gohl duhn 'ray ,shoh
golden section 'gohl duhn 'sek shuhn
Value is approximately 1.6180339887498948482045868343656381177203091798057628621354486227052604628189024497072072041893911374
Solomon Golomb
Antoine Gombaud, Chevalier de Méré fl. 1654 an twahn gohm bawd shuh 'val "yay de may ray
Gompertz
gon gahn
googol 'goo gawl
googolplex 'goo gawl ,pleks
Gordan
Bill Gosper bil gah spuhr
Ferdinand Gottfried
gradient 'grayd ee uhnt
Ronald Graham
J. P. Gram
graph graf
Hermann Grassman 'gRahs mahn
greedy 'gree dee
George Green 1793-1841 green
James Gregorie 1638-75
Pope Gregory XIII (Gregorius XIII ) 1502-85 pohp 'greg uh ree (greg 'ohr ee uhs) John Gregory
Peter Grimm
Gröbner
Hermann Grossman
Grundgesestze der Arithmetik (Frege)
Catherina Gsell
Domenico Guglielmini
Karl Gustav
Francis Guthrie fl. 1852
gyration jy 'ray shuhn
H
Jacques Hadamard 1865-1963 'had uh ,mahr
Wolfgang Haken 1928-
Edmund Halley 1656-1742 'hal ee
Alexander Hamilton 'ham uhl tuhn
William Rowan Hamilton 1805-65
Hamiltonian 'ham uhl 'toh nee uhn
Richard Hamming 1915-
Heiko Harborth
G. H. Hardy 1877-1947
harmonic hahr 'mahn ik
Harriot fl. 1631
Edward Harrison
Felix Hausdorff 'howz dohrf
Oliver Heaviside 1850-1925
hect- or hecto- hekt or 'hek tuh
hectare 'hek ,tair
Carl Heiles
Werner Karl Heisenberg 1901-76 'hyzn berg
hekat
helical 'hee ,lik uhl
helix 'hee ,liks
Martin Hellman
hemisphere 'he me ,sfir
Michel Hénon
heptagon 'hep tuh gahn
heptakaidecagon ,hep tuh ky 'dek uh gahn
Pescheux d'Herbinville early 1600s
Charles Hermite 1822-1901 ehr 'meet
Hero of Alexandria c A.D. 75 'hir oh al eg 'zan dree uh
Herodotus
Heron (Hero of Alexandria) 'her awn
Heinrich Rudolph Hertz 1857-94
hexadecimal hek suh 'des muhl
hexagon 'hek suh gahn
hexahedron ,hek suh 'hee druhn
David Hilbert 1862-1943 'hil buhrt
George Hill 1862-1943
Joseph A. Hill
Hipparchus of Bithgnia 190-120
Hipparchus of Nicaea ?160-? B.C. hi 'pahr kuss ny 'see uh
Hippasus of Metapontum 'hip uh suhss met uh 'pahn tuhm
Hippocrates of Chios 450-400 'ky awss not to be confused with Hippocrates of Kos (Latin: Cos) kahs
Morris Hirsch
E. W. Hobson
David Hoffman
Hofreiter
Douglas Hofstadter
John Holland
Herman Hollerith 1860-1929
Bernt Holmboe
homogeneous ,hoh muh 'jee nee uhs
Robert Hooke
Eberhard Hopf 1902-83 hawpf
Horner's method 'horn erz 'meth uhd
Marquis de l'Hospital 1661-1704 loh pee tal
Chia Hsien c1050
hsuan thu
T. C. Hu
John Hubbard
Edwin Hubble 1889-1953
Edward V. Huntington
John Hutchinson
Aldous Huxley
Christiaan Huygens 1629-95 'hy genz
Frank Hwang
Hypatia 370-415 hy 'pay shuh
hyperbola hy 'per buh luh
hyperbolic ,hy per ,bahl ik
hyperboloid hy 'per buh loyd
hypercube 'hy per ,kyoob
hypoteneuse hy 'paht n ,ooss