Monday 16 April 2012

Informal and mathematical language

Hello students, in daily to daily life we use language to telling something to anyone not only we use but everyone use the language for the communication. The language may be anyone like English, Hindi, Latin and many more. But have you ever think about the language of Maths.  Here we are going to discuss the language of maths especially for the informal and mathematical language. In mathematics we use so many types of methods, theorems, expressions, symbols, proofs and many things, the all are comes in mathematical language. It is true that mathematics language is not used for the communication but without this we can nothing understand in math. Like algebra which is totally written in symbolic form.
We assumes math as a language and generally mathematical language is used for the better understanding, to represents the mathematical theorems more clearly, give their reason very logically so that everyone can easily understand. Mathematical language have own grammar, syntax, symbols and conventions. Like we use x for expressing theorems. The vocabulary words for the logic are ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘not’, ‘if…then’, ‘for all’, and ‘if and only if’. Symbols for operation are +, -, *, /, ∏, ∟, ∞, √, ∑, and ⌠ many more. Mathematical language is only used by the mathematicians for the communicating mathematical thoughts among themselves. (know more about cbse books for class 11, here)
Mathematical language also gives precise information for English like statements like we write a is equal to b in English language but the same statement in mathematical form will be a = b. The informal language in math is only used for understanding the concepts and proofs. Generally this language is not written; usually it is used for spoken and used according to the situations or conditions. In the next session we will discuss about Mathematical Reasoning. 

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