Sometimes mathematics is referred to as a language. And ideed it is. Patterns lend themselves to language-like representation. That's the gobbledygook on the blackboard. But language is not merely a collection of words, or symbols or gestures. Language is a means of communication. It is a vessel for conveying concepts. You can choose from a number of vessels. Poems captures things that can't quite be expressed in standard writing, and vice versa. Sometimes music or a song works better, sometimes a dance, a painting or a sculpture. Sometimes a performance artist will feel that hanging themselves on fishhooks from a beam is the only way they can express something deeply felt. This only goes to show how innate and important communications is to us.
Mathematics And Sex - Clio Cresswell
ALLEN & UNWIN (2003)
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