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The initial problem has to be thought of and abstracted in language. It merely gets translated into math after that - math being a tool used to attempt to solv
by scarygliders 6y ago
The initial problem has to be thought of and abstracted in language.
It merely gets translated into math after that - math being a tool used to attempt to solve that problem.
No one thinks and speaks purely in math. It must be language, then math, then language again to help describe and explain the solution which was found using math.
- krapp 6y agoThe math is correct or incorrect regardless of the language used. Changing the language doesn't change the math, what the math predicts, or what observation and experimentation prove or disprove about those predictions.
- magicalhippo 6y ago> No one thinks and speaks purely in math. It must be language, then math [...] I disagree for any non-trivial use of "language". By that I mean that things like "wonder what will happen if I use a different boundary condition" is a trivial use of language, as it does not affect the understanding of the problem or how to solve it.