The Incomplete Enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt

Author:L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt [de Camp, L. Sprague & Fletcher Pratt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
Publisher: Pyramid
Published: 1960-06-26T06:00:00+00:00

The most serious question, as he explained to Chalmers on his return, was concern with the formulas of the magic they intended to use on their arrival. "How do you expect to read English in the land of Faerie when I couldn't in Scandinavia?" he demanded.

"I've allowed for that," Chalmers replied. "You forget that mathematics is a ... a universal language, independent of words."

"All right. But will your mathematical symbols mean the same things?"

"Glance at this sheet, Harold. Knowing the principles of symbolic logic to begin with, I can look over this pictured equation with an apple at the left and a great many apples at the right, and thus realize it means that an apple belongs to the class of apples. From that I shall infer that the horseshoe-shaped symbol in the centre means 'is a member of the class of'."

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