Mathematicians and language
15 Jan 2007 · Posted in Mathematics
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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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.