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It was not Paul Samuelson but rather Yale Physics Professor and  
teacher of Irving Fisher who first coined the phrase "mathematics is a  
language."
---Tom Humphrey

On Nov 16, 2014, at 4:12 AM, Nicola Giocoli wrote:

> Should we then start calling it "the Samuelsonian disease" (from  
> Paul Samuelson's famous "mathematics is language" dictum)?
>
> I know the use of models is not the same thing as the use of math  
> (just read von Neumann's "The mathematician"), but a good  
> catchphrase may help. Other suggestions?
>
> Nicola Giocoli
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from WIND

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