Frequency of Math Symbols Does anyone know of a study that has calculated the frequency of math symbols based on some popular mathematics journals or math corpus?
For example in English you have letter frequencies of the most common english documents.

Obviously the list is much larger in Mathematics, but it would be interesting to see what characters are used the most in mathematics.  (This question might be better fit for meta.math.stackexchange.com, stackoverflow.com or even mathematica.stackexchange.com)
Question: Does anyone know of a frequency table that plots out the frequency of math symbols based on mathematic journals or a math corpus?
 A: I don't think so for the specific symbols.  It would vary so widely from topic to topic that it would be a bit pointless. 
Nate Eldrige at Cornell did a fair amount of frequency analysis on words and phrases that come up in maths papers in order to come up with this delightful ruse.
A: Mathematics isn't a language in itself. It's a huge collection of languages and dialects with many, many symbols.
It's unclear what one can gleam from such an analysis. Languages tend to follow Zipf's Law or other power law distributions. However mathematics is much less homogenous. The frequency of vowels in scientific journals vs Shakespeare poetry is going to be pretty similar but the differences in symbols for a differential geometry paper vs a numerical linear algebra paper will be wholly different. Not to mention it's extremely ambiguous to speak of math symbols. I suppose you could look up Latex code for each math symbol and count stuff that way. Or you could restrict your attention to a select few. But then you'll run into the homogeneity issue. 
