Below is a glossary of some common acronyms occurring on mathematics web pages.
- ANU : Australian National University
- BUBL : Bulletin Board for Librarians, Mathematics (BUBL at Bath, UK)
- CDE : Commission on Development and Exchange of the IMU
- CTAN : Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
- DTD : Document Type Declaration
- DMV : Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, German Mathematical Society (Berlin , Germany)
- HEA : Higher Education Academy
- HOL : Higher Order Logic, as in the The HOL Theorem Proving System
- HPCC : High Performance Computing and Communications
- HTML : Hypertext Markup Language (an SGML DTD, in fact)
- ICHM : International Commission on the History of Mathematics
- ICM : International Commission on Mathematical Instruction
- ICMI : International Congress of Mathematicians
- IT : Institute of Technology, as in Georgia Institute of Technology
- IUP : Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- IUPUI : Indiana University – Purdue University in Indianapolis
- LMS : London Mathematical Society
- NCCOSC : Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center in San Diego CA
- NHSE : National HPCC Software Exchange
- SFB : Sonderforschungsbereich (German = special research area)
- SGML : Standard Generalized Markup Language
- SMB : Society for Mathematical Biology
- TCS : Theoretical Computer Science
- TH : Technische Hochschule [German], as in TH Darmstadt
- TLA : Three-Letter Acronym
- TU : Technische Universität [German], as in TU Berlin
- TUG : TeX User Group
- U : University or University of, as in U Toronto or Harvard U
- UC : University of California, as in UC Irvine, specifying the Irvine campus
- UCSTRI : Unified Computer Science TR Index (Marc VanHeyningen’s searchable index of documents)
- UIUC : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- UMALCA : Unión Matemática de América Latina y el Caribe
- Uni : Universität [German] or Université (de) [French], as in Uni Münster or Uni Strasbourg
- WWW : World-Wide Web; also written W3
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