Symbols:A/Arctangent/arctan

Arctangent

$\arctan$

The usual symbol used on $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$ to denote the arctangent function is $\arctan$.

The $\LaTeX$ code for \(\arctan\) is \arctan .

Also denoted as

atan

$\operatorname {atan}$

A variant symbol used to denote the arctangent function is $\operatorname {atan}$.

The $\LaTeX$ code for \(\operatorname {atan}\) is \operatorname {atan} .

atn

$\operatorname {atn}$

A variant symbol used to denote the arctangent function is $\operatorname {atn}$.

The $\LaTeX$ code for \(\operatorname {atn}\) is \operatorname {atn} .

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): inverse trigonometric functions (antitrigonometric functions)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): arccos, arcsin, arctan, etc.${}$
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): inverse trigonometric functions (antitrigonometric functions)
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): arccos, arccosec, arccot, arcsin, arcsec, arctan
• 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): arccos, arccosec, arccot, arcsin, arcsec, arctan