The logos. "In the beginning was English and math".

[David T]

Since reality for most starts with their cranium I would like to know how English and math formed the cosmos? Certainly religion insists upon emglish, maybe Latin, and certainly theoretical mathematicians say balderdash math, which one it is it both?4433355

 

[Rival]

Well this is certainly not English, at any rate.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

English is definitely a "later arrival" linguistically, and itself being derived from German. I do not get this "balderdash math" because math is not balderdash, but rather one of the very few methods we have for determining objective facts. It also especially helps when math pretty much proves and supports itself.

 

[Rival]

English is definitely a "later arrival" linguistically, and itself being derived from German. I do not get this "balderdash math" because math is not balderdash, but rather one of the very few methods we have for determining objective facts. It also especially helps when math pretty much proves and supports itself.

Germanic, not German

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Germanic, not German

It is a Germanic language that is derived from German. Lexiconically English did pick up a ton of French, and a good deal of Spanish at least for American-English (not sure about British-English given America has much common "cowboy jargon" that is directly taken from Spanish), but we still have a ton of words in English that are still very similar, if not nearly identical, to their German counterparts, our verbs conjugate and function much in the same way (such as -ed being the common weak verb ending in both languages), and we even have similar cases, although English speakers (again, at least in America) tend to not utilize them or depend on them as much as Germans.

 

[Rival]

It is a Germanic language that is derived from German. Lexiconically English did pick up a ton of French, and a good deal of Spanish at least for American-English (not sure about British-English given America has much common "cowboy jargon" that is directly taken from Spanish), but we still have a ton of words in English that are still very similar, if not nearly identical, to their German counterparts, our verbs conjugate and function much in the same way (such as -ed being the common weak verb ending in both languages), and we even have similar cases, although English speakers (again, at least in America) tend to not utilize them or depend on them as much as Germans.

Not from German, it's from Saxon. German and English forked from a common Germanic tongue. Englisc and the various German dialects are not the same.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Objection: Math cannot prove itself, but it is true in some important contexts.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Objection: Math cannot prove itself, but it is true in some important contexts.

It does prove itself as the systems "work," and you can reverse the steps and get identical numbers.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Math is something everybody deserves to learn, but most people do not get the chance to learn more than a little.