English grammar can be. Buffalo is an animal, a city, and a verb meaning "to bewilder and confuse". As a result the following can be proven.
The word buffalo, repeated any number of times, can always be parsed into a valid English sentence. If the number of times it appears is prime, it can only be parsed into ONE possible English sentence.
No, it is a mathematical statement about linguistics. It should not be surprising that mathematics can be used to describe things. Everything in the universe can be described by mathematics--even truly random, acausal events have probability distributions which are described by mathematics. But being described by mathematics does not make it mathematics. That's a type error.
I think so, but it wouldn’t be very interesting. The rules of Japanese grammar mathematically could only tell you if something is in the Japanese language or not. The other challenge is that human languages tend to be filled with exceptions and intentional violations of rules for creative effect. That kind of stuff doesn’t really fly in mathematical languages.
English grammar can be. Buffalo is an animal, a city, and a verb meaning "to bewilder and confuse". As a result the following can be proven.
The word buffalo, repeated any number of times, can always be parsed into a valid English sentence. If the number of times it appears is prime, it can only be parsed into ONE possible English sentence.
This is clearly a statement of mathematics!
No, it is a mathematical statement about linguistics. It should not be surprising that mathematics can be used to describe things. Everything in the universe can be described by mathematics--even truly random, acausal events have probability distributions which are described by mathematics. But being described by mathematics does not make it mathematics. That's a type error.
I think so, but it wouldn’t be very interesting. The rules of Japanese grammar mathematically could only tell you if something is in the Japanese language or not. The other challenge is that human languages tend to be filled with exceptions and intentional violations of rules for creative effect. That kind of stuff doesn’t really fly in mathematical languages.