Being able to represent the same things in different ways is simply captured by the syntax&#x2F;semantics dichotomy from disciplines like programming language theory. There is no need to invoke philosophy.<p>Programmers care about syntax, too. But it&#x27;s not like we&#x27;ve collectively figured it out yet. But I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it turned out that we were further ahead than mathematicians in some ways. :o)