&gt; &quot;Looking more like math&quot; is not so vapid.<p>Looking more like math _in itself_ is vapid. Sure, you can make cases for why looking like math is good. But by itself it&#x27;s vapid.<p>&gt; Fortunately, we long ago invented and mostly debugged something to make thinking easier: Mathematics. B<p>Don&#x27;t conflate mathematical notation with math itself. The great thing about mathematics are the analytical insights, not how those insights are written down.<p>Is it really the case that we &quot;invented and mostly debugged something to make thinking easier&quot; in the <i>notational sense</i>? Math notation, like most notation, seems as arbitrary as any other invented notation. Was there really some rigour behind it which you can use to claim that it makes &quot;thinking easier&quot;? The question itself of &quot;making thinking easier&quot; through notation is beyond the scope of mathematics. But there are of course interdisciplinary mathematicians.