From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Quote by Knuth Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:06:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87k0lsdsaw.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87o8bgg6br.fsf@zoho.eu> <20210705154121.GB6395@tuxteam.de> <878s2j2onn.fsf@zoho.eu> <87r1gbdr6d.fsf@zoho.eu> <87o8b4eiyr.fsf@mbork.pl> <87y2a8ecck.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7813"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 28.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 15 08:07:53 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m3uXI-0001qV-SH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:07:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46980 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m3uXH-0005qF-I3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 02:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52804) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m3uWV-0005ld-Oa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 02:07:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:58486) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m3uWN-00030a-8P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 02:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D7D2E69DC; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:06:53 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xzOZIqDfeLh3; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:06:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [45.88.96.72]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 76E78E61F6; Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:06:47 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <87y2a8ecck.fsf@zoho.eu> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=195.110.48.8; envelope-from=mbork@mbork.pl; helo=mail.mojserwer.eu X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131718 Archived-At: On 2021-07-15, at 00:53, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: > But without the symbolic notation it isn't really math, is it, > because the natural language, no matter how careful one is, > can still be misinterpreted, interpreted in several ways, it > can be translated, made fun of ... Interesting, but false. What Greeks did was most certainly mathematics even if they had little to none symbolism. Also, there's plenty of room for misinterpretation in some mathematical notations (multivariate anaylsis comes to mind). Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl