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LaTeX font for 'old-fashioned' script characters

Browsing through a copy of Counterexamples in Analysis (Gelbaum & Olmsted), I'm quite enjoying the typeface used for 'script' letters (see links to examples below); visually it's somewhere ...
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\cal messes up the math mode

How come when I use this code with beamer \begin{block}{Misadjustment} $$ \cal{M} = \frac{1-\lambda}{2}\sigma_v^2 M + \frac{1}{2(1-\lambda)}tr[\mathbf{RQ}] $$ \end{block} results in this: But ...
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How to use \mathcal with subscript? Undefined control sequence..

I am trying to have a cursively written l (L) with a subscript A. I tried this: If A has a straight line $\matchcal{l\subscript{A}}$ But I'm getting undefined control sequence. Why is this?