16: "By encryptedness, I mean that one symbol can stand for a number of different operations or ideas, just as the multiplication sign symbolizes repeated addition | Brussels: IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence |
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Heath, Thomas Little 1981 [originally published 1921] | Dehaene, Stanislas; Dehaene-Lambertz, Ghislaine; Cohen, Laurent Aug 1998 |
This may be because humans haven't evolved over the millennia to manipulate mathematical ideas, which are frequently more abstractly encrypted than those of conventional language.
"The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism" | New York: Penguin Random House |
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Wilder, Evolution of Mathematical Concepts; an Elementary Study, passim• Castelvecchi, Davide 7 October 2015 | The mathematical study of change, motion, growth or decay is calculus |
The science of space, number, quantity, and arrangement, whose methods involve logical reasoning and usually the use of symbolic notation, and which includes geometry, arithmetic, algebra, and analysis.
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