Greek letters\lambda

\lambdaSymbol

The λ symbol (Greek small letter lamda, U+03BB), written as \lambda in LaTeX math mode.

\lambda

Topic: Greek letters
Available in: base
Allowed mode: math
Frequency: 8.26% of corpus formulasrank 7 of 474
Glyph: λ
Unicode: U+03BB · GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA

Common tasks#

How to write a Greek lambda#

\lambda

How to write an eigenvalue#

Av=\lambda v

How to write a Poisson rate#

X\sim\mathrm{Poisson}(\lambda)

In TeXForm#

TeXForm parses this entry as a character leaf mapped to U+03BB (GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA).

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