It has been long thought that one of the characteristics that makes humans unique is our ability to learn and manipulate symbols for communication. However, this notion is starting to slowly unravel.

As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent. Words are symbols. It’s the manipulation of those symbols that ...

Do you ever find yourself writing up a text message or an email, digging through your emojis searching for the perfect integral symbol and coming up short? If this sounds familiar, then The Math ...