alt Hacker NewsMathematics is a human language. It being a formal language doesn’t change that.
Further, it’s not objective: you’re choosing the basis which causes the complexity, but any particular structure can be made simple in some basis.
Mathematics is a human language. It being a formal language doesn’t change that.
Further, it’s not objective: you’re choosing the basis which causes the complexity, but any particular structure can be made simple in some basis.
Mathematical notation is a human invention, but the structure that mathematics describes is objective. The choice of basis changes the absolute number of terms, but the relative magnitude of terms for a more or less disordered state is generally fixed outside of degenerate cases.