[carlCarlCarlCar]

Applied math is little more than semantics compression.

This fundamental truth is embedded in the common symbols of arithmetic...

+ ... one line combined with another ...linear...line wee

- ...opposite of + one line removed

x ...eXponential addition, combining groups

•/• ... exponential breaking into groups ...also hints at inherent ratio

From there it's symbols that describe different objects and how to apply the fundamental arithmetic operations; like playing over a chord in music

The interesting work is in physical science not the notation. Math is used to capture physics that would be too verbose to describe in English or some other "human" language. Which IMO should be reserved for capturing emotional context anyway as that's where they originate from.

Programming languages have senselessly obscured the simple and elegant reality of computation, which is really just a subset of math; the term computer originated to describe humans that manually computed. Typescript, Python, etc don't exist[1]. They are leaky abstractions that waste a lot of resources to run some electromagnetic geometry state changes.

Whether it's politics, religion or engineering, "blue" language, humans seem obsessed with notation fetishes. Imo it's all rather prosaic and boring

[1] at best they exist as ethno objects of momentary social value to those who discuss them