The Importance of Symbols in Mathematics

For certain binary operations they we drew lines in the sand and where we stopped so everybody knows that you know pluses across and minuses of a flat hyphen. But what about two very other common mathematical operations minimum and maximum? Like we just arbitrarily decided that those don't get symbols which like you don't really ever pause to think about thatlike it's just what we're taught. And then Ken Iverson in the 50s he saw this and I'm not sure if he was the first person in the history of the world to have this thought and said like okay that's nonsense. He created two symbols to represent min and max but yeah it's APL and makes you or array