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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One Response to “Mathematicians and language”

  1. Card0 on February 18th, 2007 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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