Mathematics - from the foundations through its courses of developments, using rules of logic, abstractions and reason aided by the imagination of the thinking friend of the human mind, indeed is more than any one of a common ordinary human languages. It is in fact a supra-language of the greater universe in which the human language oscillates as a barrier and element of imperfection in understanding the universe, communicating with it and precisely behave accordingly and fit in the section that we are in. It is the only universal supra-language that describes universal phenomena either that emanates from the human mind and imagination or that is observed from nature outside of the human mind in its every possible aspects or coordinates of existence precisely with no ambiguity. Mathematics though universal, but when used for special human purposes is also local. Locality here is not only in terms of validity, but in terms of existence. The moon exists locally as a satellite of earth very close, but also exists in the universe as such but with more properties ( who knows ) but with infinitely negligible ( small ) size.
Think for the moment why computers do perfectly with minimal possibility of errors, doing what we intend them to do: computers in flights, hospitals, banks, cars, etc. ? Because their language - the way they receive input data, process information and communicate their results to us is through the only language of no ambiguity -- Mathematics. Had it been one of the languages of man that computers use, I can imagine how many tragedies have been committed from flights, hospitals, cars, etc, where computers are used, since the advent of computers and their usage for man.
As a matter of fact we sometimes say, the mathematics we write in human languages informal, while the one we do in abstractions using possible symbols of mathematics formal. Here the formal descriptions of the mathematics we do are not bound to misinterpretations and thereby getting different results - which in most cases are wrong results. But the formal ones always precise, not open to distortions which when happen reflected on the negative and un intended results. Almost all destructions that occurred through out the history of humankind in dealing with each other and reading nature are due to misrepresentation, misreading, misunderstanding, miscommunication and thereby getting un intended results and their aftermath.
Then what better language of precision can somebody of a common sense imagine than Mathematics ?
~ Dejenie Alemayehu Lakew, Ph.D.