The lambda character is the first symbol which attract me.
It's the symbol of the great city of Sparta. It's the first character of the region' name of Sparta, Lacedemoni.
Every Spartan soldiers (without Iliotes and Perièques, people who were not native from Sparta, they were considered like inferior than Spartans) were fighting with a shield where was marked the lambda symbol.
Sparta was great terrestrial fighter city-state during the Greek Antiquity.
“Upper-case letter Λ
The lambda particles in particle physics.
The set of logical axioms in the axiomatic method of logical deduction in first-order logic.
Used as a shield pattern by the Spartan army; it stood for Lakedaimon, the name of the region.
The von Mangoldt function in number theory.
In statistics, Wilks' lambda is used in multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) to compare group means on a combination of dependent variables.
In spectral decomposition of matrices, a diagonal matrix of eigenvalues of the decomposed matrix.
In computer science, the time window over which a process is observed for determining the working memory set for virtual memory management.
In astrophysics, the likelihood that a small body will encounter a planet or dwarf planet leading to a deflection of a particular magnitude. An object with a large value is expected to have cleared its neighborhood, satisfying the current definition of a planet.
In crystal optics, it is used to represent the period of a lattice.
In NATO military operations, a chevron (Lambda symbol) is painted on coalition force vehicles for identification.
In Electrochemistry, denotes the Equivalent conductance of an electrolyte.
In cosmology, the symbol for the cosmological constant.”
But lambda is also a symbol of some fascists groups. Actually in Greece racists people make use of the Thermopile fight lambda symbol like a symbol of “resistance to foreign”.
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