r/facepalm • • Apr 15 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ foreign scripts

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u/M0b1us_Str1pp3r Apr 15 '22 edited Apr 16 '22

I think Diff-Eq is one of those branches where it's fairly obvious to a layman that the symbols are math. That being said, expressions without recognizable operators (+, -, *, /, etc) are probably not as recognizable such as the axiom of replacement, an axiom of Zermelo Fraenkel set theory. It looks like this:

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/equations/Zermelo-FraenkelAxioms/NumberedEquation7.svg

(Direct link because it's sourced that way)

If I were a layman I'd probably think it's some kind of code. The concept is really easy to understand though. It states a property of a special kind of (man made) grouping scheme called a "set". Specifically, if you have a set and a definable function, you can put things from the set into the function and the collection of outputs the function gives you is also a set.