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Christian Piccardi wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Oct 1998 newhov@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> > > >"Is mathematics a language?"
> >
> >      Yes. (Because it affects the behavior of others.)
> >
> NO. Concepts of mathematics are transported to others by using
> language, but are not a language themselves.
> If so every branch of science would have to be considered
> a language and in physics for example every natural law would,
> following your interpretation, be a subset of a language.
>
> Christian

You might be writing about two different things here. There are the
_concepts_ of mathematics, and the _medium_ through which those concepts
are expressed. Maybe we can consider the medium to be a language; that
medium would include numbers and other mathematical symbols. Mathematics
itself is not a language, but the symbols are a language; they convey
understandable information from one mathematician to another.

The symbols of other sciences could be considered languages -- but the
natural laws would be the concepts.

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