Kronecker's Delta

δij = 1 if i=j, 0 otherwise.

If you’re going to declare such a trivial operator part of the standard notation, at least don’t name it after someone as if it were a groundbreaking novelty!

Also see Iverson brackets, a similar operator named after the creator of APL who received a Turing award in part “for his contributions to mathematical notation” (hopefully more because he created APL; most creators of popular programming languages have won Turing awards).

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