Cometa, Kenneth Marshall V.

GED102-A13

ARTICLE

I have learned that mathematics are not always numbers. It can also be written

as a form of a sentence using its own grammar and language. I have also learned about

the words used in our language that has an equivalent meaning to the mathematical

grammar. Every operations of mathematical equation has an equivalent to English

grammar. If one reads a mathematical equation, the words that the individual uses is in

a form of mathematical language that can be written as letters and not numbers. I

learned that we should be very careful when it comes to translating mathematical

equations from numbers and characters to letters because one wrong translation can

lead to a misunderstanding and it could change the meaning of the whole sentence.

Since this is the first time that I knew about this grammar, there are still a lot of

things that are unclear to me. The P and Q statements are just one of these things. I

kind of get what it wants to imply but it’s still not that clear to me. I also got confused to

the quantifier and negation part. I am still confused on how it is applied to grammar and

how it is structured. The last thing that is still unclear to me is the levels of formality part.

I don’t know how to read the characters written and I cannot understand how it is

implied. I think it is due to my lack of knowledge in mathematics, that’s why I am not

able to understand it clearly.

 I used to think that if it’s math we’re talking about, then it’s all about numbers.

Now that I’ve read the article, I realized that mathematics also have its own grammar

that is derived from the English grammar. I also thought before that there are no

equivalent translation of the mathematical symbols in English grammar, but I was

wrong, they can also be written in words, not just in symbols.

Questions:

--Is there a way for us to easily understand the mathematical language? How?

--Are there any instances where there are no equivalent of symbols to English in

which it will only be written as a symbol and will never be translated to the grammar we

know?

--Since mathematics has a lot of branches already and each one of them gets

harder and harder to understand, will the grammar help us in understanding the more

complex mathematical equations and problems?