Mathematics and linguistics
Christopher A. Landauer, Kirstie L. Bellman · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1996
In this paper, we study foundational issues that we believe will help us develop a theoretically sound approach to constructing complex systems. The two theoretical approaches that have helped us understand and develop computational systems in the past are mathematics and linguistics. We describe some differences and strengths of the approaches, and propose a research program to combine the richness of linguistic reasoning with the precision of mathematics.