That doesn’t prove it isn’t a language. Many concepts are untranslatable between languages. Formal languages exist which are only able to express things within their formal domain. Etc!
Modern mathematicians use a common symbolic system to communicate mathematical ideas that is more a language than it is not a language. In fact I think it’s entirely a language.
there are a variety of ways to express any mathematical idea… i.e. there are a variety of mathematical languages
usually referred to as different notations.
even when there are language barriers, a good translator can still express an idea in another language… math is not a language, but you do kinda need to learn another language to understand it
It says, ‘Better known for other work’. In case you don’t know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Bombings
That’s not the part of the foot note i was referring to.
Then I think you’re misusing the word footnote.
Ha! I was. Thank you.
D’oh
But my point about math still stands lol
I think the main reason it’s hard to understand is it’s missing context that’s not important to the joke: whatever
nis in this context…it’s not a language, you can’t translate a book into mathematics
That doesn’t prove it isn’t a language. Many concepts are untranslatable between languages. Formal languages exist which are only able to express things within their formal domain. Etc!
Modern mathematicians use a common symbolic system to communicate mathematical ideas that is more a language than it is not a language. In fact I think it’s entirely a language.
there are a variety of ways to express any mathematical idea… i.e. there are a variety of mathematical languages
usually referred to as different notations.
even when there are language barriers, a good translator can still express an idea in another language… math is not a language, but you do kinda need to learn another language to understand it
What’s your point?
Then maybe you were referring to the part above the footnote, which is called the text ☝️🤓
It’s not a big deal
That’s the whole footnote, though.