Mathematics might seem intimidating at first glance, but understanding its symbols is like learning to read a new language, one that opens doors to science, technology, and logical thinking. Whether ...
As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent. Words are symbols. It’s the manipulation of those symbols that ...
IN 1902 Prof. W. W. Beman, of the University of Michigan, pointed out (“L'Interm diaire des math maticiens,” T.9, Paris, p. 229, question 2424), that the colon (:) occurs as a designation of geometric ...