As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought ... it’s the manipulation of symbols of a different type that makes mathematics practical.

In The Language of Mathematics: The Stories behind ... the U.K. and France. All these different regions were producing symbols, and with the advent of the printing press, there was an explosion ...

and Devanagari used in a large number of southeast Asian languages). But there are piles of specialized symbols for math, phonetics, currency, and, yes, there are emoji. I’ve written before ...

Elaborate symbols and ornate depictions ... given up their secret – to mathematics. Statistical analysis reveals that the shapes are a forgotten written language. The method could help interpret ...