I'm reading an old book on Mathematical analysis and in the chapter on sets I found this:
This represents set multiplication and I want to reproduce this in my notes, but can't seem to find a way to do that. How can I do this in LaTeX?
[Tex/LaTex] How to produce sign for set multiplication (from old math book) in LaTeX
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You surely can define your shortcuts; indeed you should.
Let's make some examples. Suppose your document is full of Fourier transforms, for which you need a fancy F. Instead of writing every time
$\mathcal{F}(f)$
it's surely better to define a new command, say
\newcommand{\FT}{\mathcal{F}}
(choose any name you like), so that you can type
$\FT(f)$
and get the same result as before, with a big bonus! If you change your mind about the notation, you can simply modify the definition.
Another example. The "gradient" operator is not predefined; so you might want to have a command for it:
\DeclareMathOperator{\grad}{grad}
A different one; my preferred notation for vectors is, say, \mathbf{v}. However, since conventions are different, I never type vectors in that way, but prefer to have
\newcommand{\vect}[1]{\mathbf{#1}}
for the same reason as before; I might change my mind and want to modify the appearance, say for using bold italic; this would be accomplished just by saying
\usepackage{bm}
and changing the above into
\newcommand{\vect}[1]{\bm{#1}}
How do you organize this? Here's an example:
\documentclass[a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % input encoding UTF-8
% Useful packages
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsthm}
% add all the packages you need
% Personal definitions
\newcommand{\FT}{\mathcal{F}} % Fourier transform operator
\DeclareMathOperator{\grad}{grad} % gradient
\newcommand{\vect}[1]{\mathbf{#1}} % vectors and matrices
\begin{document}
...
\end{document}
Add definitions while you find that they are useful for distinguishing logical units of your document.
Essentially these symbols seem to be available in the MathTime Professional 2 Fonts. In particular page 35 of the user guide gives a complete alphabet of "curly" capital letters including these symbols:
Best Answer
There is a
\varprodoperator provided by the packagestxfonts/pxfontsand a\bigtimesoperator provided by the packagemathabx.Unless you want to load one of the mentioned packages for any other need, I suggest you to "extract" the definition of the symbol from the package and use it as in the following MWE. Choose the one you prefer.