Timeline for Mathematical habits of thought and action which would be of use to non-mathematicians
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| Sep 7, 2011 at 19:55 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Latin is kinda commutative, though. Incidentally, it has always stricken me as peculiar that languages seem to evolve in the direction complicated => simple, rather than the other way round like everything else. Just after we invented fire and the wheel, there must've been a genius somewhere who invented a zillion of cases, declensions and verb tenses. Must've been either the aliens or Atlantis. | |
| Sep 7, 2011 at 16:04 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | I hear there's even a tribe somewhere whose language is a Moufang loop... | |
| Sep 7, 2011 at 16:01 | comment | added | Dror Speiser | Yes. Even in the 21st century, all known languages are not commutative. | |
| Sep 7, 2011 at 15:49 | history | answered | John Stillwell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |