Excerpt from The Role of Standards in Product Lifecycle Management Support
Highly 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.