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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

Making maths more Lego-like—3-D picture language has far-reaching potential, including in physics

Galileo called mathematics the "language with which God wrote the universe." He described a picture-language, and now that language has a new dimension. The Harvard trio of Arthur Jaffe, the Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science, postdoctoral fellow Zhengwei Liu, and researcher Alex Wozniakowski has developed a 3-D picture-language for mathematics with potential as a tool across a range of topics, from pure maths to physics.

Though not the first pictorial language of mathematics, the new one, called quon [arxiv.org], holds promise for being able to transmit not only complex concepts, but also vast amounts of detail in relatively simple images. The language is described in a February 2017 paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "It's a big deal," said Jacob Biamonte of the Quantum Complexity Science Initiative after reading the research. "The paper will set a new foundation for a vast topic."

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-math-lego-like3-d-picture-language-far-reaching.html [phys.org]

[Abstract]: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/02/03/1621345114 [pnas.org]

[Source]: Making math more Lego-like [harvard.edu]

[Note]: My computer's dictionary likes "maths", so I have gone with that. "Math" vs "Maths" ... let the discussion continue.

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