Intro

MathMusicLang is about the holy trinity consisting of mathematics, music & natural human language. If there is a god, then he is the inside of this divine triangle. Not everybody is good at all 3, but many who are good at 1 or 2 are good at all 3, and it is certainly the case that math, music & language feed each other both in a human's mind & in culture. All 3 are languages (quite literally), as all 3 are governed by some kind of rules or «grammar», and of course all 3 have their own alphabet or system of symbols. And all 3 are analytical in nature. Math is the most analytical, of course, being unemotional at its core (though it can certainly induce and even describe emotions). Music is full of both logic and emotion, as is language, though the core structure of natural human languages is far from that of formal logic, otherwise it would be unbearably ineffective to speak in them (almost as bad as speaking in binary code). Language also entails pragmatics, which is about how context adds meaning; the same might be said about music. Spoken language also has the element of prosody (akin to melody in music), which entails intonation, stress & rhythm (and by extension — emotion). A peoples' language is a reflection of the sum achievements of its culture going back centuries, as the most pertinent aspects of a culture will have more words relating to them & many linguistic constructs used to describe them (this leads to helpful & interesting stereotypes that can describe the majority of a population — more on this in another article).

Music is proven to help organize a person’s thoughts, just like sleep does. Mathematics helps put emotions & intuition into check with the help of the laws of numbers, physics and facts. Language too helps you organize your thoughts (and your culture’s ideas), as well as develop or learn of & then evaluate multiple points of view. It’s my observation that multilingual people are generally closer to the center of the political spectrum. Math is something you can’t argue with, so I figure math helps put a perspective on the centrist point of view and present it as the closest thing possible to a point of view you can’t argue with.

In a series of articles I will explore the trinity together, as well as its constituents separately.