Excerpt from The Role of Standards in Product Lifecycle Management SupportHighly expressive languages are best suited for use within a well demarcated domain. Mathematics has served this purpose in many disciplines. Mathematics is a means of expressing the physical world with a certain amount of precision and parsimony While mathematics as a meta-language has transcended disciplines, mathematical forms used and interpreted in a domain adhere to the disciplinary vocabulary integral to the linguistic world of discourse (also known as common ground or domain of discourse) of the domain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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