Is math more visual or verbal?

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I went from Painting major to Math major. I'm starting to believe that math and painting are really the same thing, essentially.

I tend to completely ignore the writing in mathematics textbooks. If the pattern is properly represented, I'll *see* it before I have any words to describe it. But the vast majority of textbooks are complete rubbish. Older textbooks (pre-1985) in english or translated from a non-latin-based language have proven to be consistently more coherent.

recall Daniel Tammet and his thing about pi having a landscape. yes, very much so. A page of proof which is mostly math and very little words has a texture, color, form, composition, etc. A proof that is all words is like vomit, just a nasty liquid with chunks floating in it.
Sorry for that imagery, but that's exactly how I feel about it.

it's very interesting topic.
i am a visual thinker and i am studying at my Univesity ancient indian mathematics written in ancient language, sanskrit. so actually i am a linguistic studying mathematics written by words, verbally expressed. for me grammar and maths are both a totally amazing visual experience.

same here. had a 4.0 til I couldn't avoid math any more, so I graduated with a 3.85 (and took the MINIMUM amout of math I could get by with.... grrrrr! )

I actually think in the higher maths more visually than verbally, I see the functions and patterns why I work with them, and trying to verbalize it with traditional language just gives confusing nonsense.