Erratum: “Principles of Mathmodelica” [Automatic Documentation and Mathematical Linguistics 42 (1), 45 (2008)]

Mathematical Linguistics

For readers of traditional textbooks such as (Partee, Ter Meulen, and Wall, 1990), the term ‘mathematical linguistics’ denotes a rather narrowly circumscribed set of issues including automata theory, set theory, lambda calculus with maybe a little formal language theory thrown in. Kornai’s contribution is refreshingly different in that he treats, in this relatively compact volume, practically a...

Computation, Mathematical Notation, and Linguistics

Much like ordinary natural languages, most of the mathematical notation we have today has grown up over a long period of time by a kind of natural selection. Occasionally explicit efforts to systematize the notation have been made—though they have been remarkably few and far between. In the late 1600s, Leibniz, for example, was quite concerned with mathematical notation—seeing it as an opportun...

Mathematical Methods in Linguistics

1. All other texts on the mathematics of language are now obsolete. Therefore, instead of going on about what a wonderful job Partee, ter Meulen, and Wall (henceforth, PMW) have done in some ways (breadth of coverage, much better presentation of formal semantics than is usual in books on mathematics of language, etc.), I will leave the lily ungilded, and focus on some points where the book unde...

1 . Mathematical Principles of Modern Natural

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, two great philosophers, Francis Bacon (1561–1626) in England and René Descartes (1596–1650) in France, proclaimed the birth of modern science. Each of them described his vision of the future. Their visions were very different. Bacon said, “All depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed on the facts of nature.” Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am....

Erratum: Vol. 66, No. 42