If you thought that languages and mathematics had nothing to offer to each other, its time for some very serious rethinking. A group of Harvard scientists has applied mathematics to explain the extinction cycle of irregular verbs in English. According to these mathematicians, 'who have invoked evolutionary principles to study our language over the past 1,200 years, from "Beowulf" to "Canterbury Tales" to "Harry Potter","verbs evolve and homogenize at a rate inversely proportional to their prevalence in the English language." Written by Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics's Erez Lieberman, Jean-Baptiste Michel, and colleagues, this paper has appeared in the journal Nature this week. To know more about this breakthrough, click http://www.sciencecodex.com/harvard_scientists_predict_the_future_of_the_past_tense
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