Name
The word: Name, may be thought of as a kind of number, which may or may not be related to certain quantity. However, by just having a name, such as , it already implied the connotation of cardinality and ordinality in a greater context.
Name as a Kind of Number
In number theory, or in mathematics in general, a name can be adopted as a static or invariant symbol to represent a discrete number, or even just a discrete concept. As Keith Devlin eloquently puts it, names, or numbers, in mathematics, make invisible, visible[1]. According Bob Coecke in Quantum Natural Language Processing, words can be composed into sentences, and they are computable according to a set of rewrite rules, similar to numbers can be composed into mathematical expressions, and they are also computable, according to the definition of mathematical operators. {{#ev:youtube |pk49iM9OT_0 }}
References
- ↑ Devlin, Keith (Dec 12, 2012). 1. General Overview and the Development of Numbers. Mathematics: make the invisible visible. local page: Stanford.