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Mathematical folklore. In common mathematical parlance, a mathematical result is called folklore if it is an unpublished result with no clear originator, but which is well-circulated and believed to be true among the specialists. More specifically, folk mathematics, or mathematical folklore, is the body of theorems, definitions, proofs, facts ...
The language of mathematics has a vast vocabulary of specialist and technical terms. It also has a certain amount of jargon: commonly used phrases which are part of the culture of mathematics, rather than of the subject. Jargon often appears in lectures, and sometimes in print, as informal shorthand for rigorous arguments or precise ideas. Much ...
The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers.The original Jargon File was a collection of terms from technical cultures such as the MIT AI Lab, the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) and others of the old ARPANET AI/LISP/PDP-10 communities, including Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), Carnegie Mellon University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. [1] This includes oral traditions such as tales, myths, legends, [a] proverbs, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions. [3][4] This also includes material culture, such as traditional building styles common to the group.
Language of mathematics. The language of mathematics or mathematical language is an extension of the natural language (for example English) that is used in mathematics and in science for expressing results (scientific laws, theorems, proofs, logical deductions, etc.) with concision, precision and unambiguity.
Seven-league boots are an element in European folklore. The boots allow the person wearing them to take strides of seven leagues per step, resulting in great speed. The boots are often presented by a magical character to the protagonist to aid in the completion of a significant task. From the context of English language, "Seven-league boots ...
American folklore encompasses the folklore that has evolved in the present-day United States mostly since the European colonization of the Americas. It also contains folklore that dates back to the Pre-Columbian era. Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and ...
Numerals in Koro Language -language of Indigenous People by N. C. Ghosh. Science and culture, 82(5-6) 189-193, 2016 Folk Mathematics : Concepts & Definition - An Out Line by N.C.Ghosh, Rabindra Bharati Patrika Vol. XII, No. 2, 2009 Folklore Study. LOKDARPAN - Journal of the Dept. of Folklore by N.C.Ghosh, Kalyani University. Vol. 3, No. 2, 2007