(April 25, 2015 at 7:59 pm)robvalue Wrote: Mathematics is a bit like a universal language; the language of the universe maybe?
Math is a formal system but I'd wonder if it's a real language (except in a very restricted sense). Language allows people to talk about almost anything, while mathematics talks only about numbers or sets and says only certain things about them. It does seem universal, though: the same in Egypt, China, or Mars.