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Mathematicians and language

Posted in Mathematics on 15 Jan 2007.
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen.

Whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different.

(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 - 1832)

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  1. Card0 said,

    February 18, 2007 at 10:24 am

    :P
    I once overheard someone say that philosophers do pretty much the same - they interpret a simple event/theory/etc as something only they can understand.

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