When math “started” paper and writing utensils were harder to acquire. One had to transmit idea’s succinctly.
Still it would take many more books to capture it all in English than a simpler glyph set. One will still go further in math learning the meaning of the glyphs than reading it all explained in “human language”.
It’s not so hard when one accepts math is the four common operations (add, sub, div, mult) on a variety of data structures though. “Square root of” is a shorter coded language for “use numeric result of this sequence of operations against this given number” (the data structure).
Math isn’t hard. Government mandate we teach students in speaking traditions instead of educate them to measure for themselves has resulted in piss poor education in math.
Still it would take many more books to capture it all in English than a simpler glyph set. One will still go further in math learning the meaning of the glyphs than reading it all explained in “human language”.
It’s not so hard when one accepts math is the four common operations (add, sub, div, mult) on a variety of data structures though. “Square root of” is a shorter coded language for “use numeric result of this sequence of operations against this given number” (the data structure).
Math isn’t hard. Government mandate we teach students in speaking traditions instead of educate them to measure for themselves has resulted in piss poor education in math.