Angle Brackets

Type it

Ways to write the Angle Brackets symbol
UnicodeU+27E8 U+27E9
LaTeX\langle \rangle
HTML entity⟨ ⟩
Character⟨⟩

Meaning

Enclose an inner product, a sequence, or the generators of a group. They are different characters from the less-than and greater-than signs. Compare with Parentheses and Less Than.

How to read it

⟨u, v⟩

is read “the inner product of u and v”.

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