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Sigbold
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26 Aug 2015, 7:46 am

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
It has been observed, mathematics is the language of the universe. Do you think, one day, humans will only speak math, no longer having the need to speak in any other languages or will it just be in their lexicon of languages? Most people do not consider math to be a second language but it is! If you know math, you know two languages, even if you do not know another spoken one!


I doubt that math would replace for us humans verbal communication as the primary way of communication. As I understand math some thing can not simply be expressed. Math only measures the quantifiable and that what falls outside of it is essentially meaningless from such a perspective.

LoveNotHate wrote:
This reminds me of of the fictional book, "1984", wherein the totalitarian leaders thought they could control people better by eliminating word variety from the language. So, for example, words like "bad" were eliminated and replaced with "un-good".


You do realize such things also happen in real life?



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26 Aug 2015, 8:04 pm

Galileo said that "Mathematics is the language in which God has written the Universe".

But though you can write a universe in mathematics, you cant have a conversation between humans in mathematics.