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Angle brackets around two vectors, giving a number.
Also known as: Angle bracket product, Scalar product brackets, Bracket notation
Angle brackets around a pair of vectors denote their inner product — a single number measuring how much they point the same way. Physicists write the same object as a bra-ket, and both notations are angle brackets doing different jobs on the page.
Denotes the inner product of two vectors: a scalar measuring their alignment and the lengths involved.
Contexts: Mathematics
Is written in physics as a bra-ket, where the same angle brackets are split around a vertical bar and mean the same quantity.
Contexts: Mathematics
Should not be typeset with the less-than and greater-than signs, which are shaped differently and break spacing in mathematical typesetting.
Contexts: Mathematics
Two pointed brackets, each a pair of strokes meeting at a shallow angle, enclosing two expressions separated by a comma.