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Chapter 1 discusses how nature is filled with patterns from the stars in the sky to the smallest molecules. Over centuries, humans developed mathematics as a formal system to recognize, classify, and exploit these patterns, with new types of patterns like fractals and chaos being discovered in recent decades. Chapter 2 explains that mathematics is useful for helping solve puzzles by finding the underlying rules and structures behind observed patterns in nature. Key examples are the concepts of acceleration and velocity developed to understand motion. Chapter 3 states that mathematics involves numbers, symbols, operations, functions, and data structures. It can be thought of as a landscape with related proofs and theories clustered together. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss how Newton used mathematics to

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Favorite Line Chapter1-5 (Nature's Numbers)

Chapter 1 discusses how nature is filled with patterns from the stars in the sky to the smallest molecules. Over centuries, humans developed mathematics as a formal system to recognize, classify, and exploit these patterns, with new types of patterns like fractals and chaos being discovered in recent decades. Chapter 2 explains that mathematics is useful for helping solve puzzles by finding the underlying rules and structures behind observed patterns in nature. Key examples are the concepts of acceleration and velocity developed to understand motion. Chapter 3 states that mathematics involves numbers, symbols, operations, functions, and data structures. It can be thought of as a landscape with related proofs and theories clustered together. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss how Newton used mathematics to

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Republic of the Philippines

Sorsogon State College

Sorsogon City

S.Y. 2019-2020

Synthesis Paper
(Nature's Numbers by Ian Stewart)

Submitted by :

Rochelle Ann G. Bonete

BEED-1B

Submitted to :

Mrs. Karina D. Belardo

Instructor
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1. There is much beauty in nature's clues,

and we can all recognize it without any mathematical training

There are things and phenomenas that happen in our enivorment. We as humans have the
capability to recognize a certain phenomena through observing them without any training. Due
to our insights and skill, we can think critically and later on we realized that there are clues that
can be found in nature. By that, we can solve a puzzle/problem that nature's implicit on us.

2. Communing with nature does all of us good: it remind us of what we are

It only means that nature itself brought us in good. The patterns that came from nature help us
to formulate equations and invent things that can help us in situations in terms of computing
especially in mathematics. It describe and reflects of what we are.

3. Proofs knit the fabric of mathematics together, and if a single thread is weak,

the entire fabric may unravel

The statement really meant an important thing that is apllied to mathematics. For instance,
once you solve a problem and there something wrong on the process that you solve it, as a
whole the solution you made will be wrong.

4. You can't step into the same river twice by Greek Philosopher Heraclitus

It explains us that we cannot stand on two arguments. An example of this is the human thought
about nature has swung between two opposing points of view. According to one view, the
universe obeys fixed, immutable laws, and everything exists in a well-defined objective reality.
The opposing view is that there is no such thing as objective reality; that all is flux, all is change.

5. Good ideas are rare, but they come at least as often from imaginative dreams

As a person or an artist, we can creatively think of something imaginative. By that, good ideas
and thoughts come. For instance in mathematics, the internal structure of it as they do from
attempts to solve a specific, practical problem will have answers.
SUMMARY

CHAPTER 1: The Natural Order

The universe is filled with patterns. From the stars we see at the sky up to the smallest atom
molecule. Stewart's begins the book by describing just some of nature’s patterns: the regular
movements of the stars in the night sky; the sixfold symmetry of snowflakes; the stripes of
tigers and zebras; the recurring patterns of sand dunes; rainbows; the spiral of a snail’s shell;
why nearly all flowers have petals that are arranged and etc. Over the past centuries, human
developed a formal system of thought for recognizing, clasdifying and exploiting patterns which
is "Mathematics." Only within last 30 years humanity became explicity aware if the two types of
pattern known as fractals and chaos.

CHAPTER 2: What Mathematic is for

Mathematics is brilliant at helping us to solve puzzles. It is more or less systematic way of


digging out the rules and structures that lie behind some observed pattern or regularity, and
then using those rules and structures to explain what's going on. The nature of acceleration
which is not a fundamental quantity, a rate of change. The nature of velocity was also invented
which is the rate at which the body's distance from some chosen point changes. Two of the
main things that maths are for are providing the tools which let scientists understand what
nature is doing and providing new theoretical questions for mathematicians to explore further.

CHAPTER 3: What Mathematics is about

Mathematics is about numbers as well as symbols. Furthermore, mathematics is also about


operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. And functions, also known
as transformations, rules for transforming one mathematical object into another. Many of these
processes can be thought of as things which help to create data structures. Mathematics is like a
landscape with similar proofs and theories clustered together to create peaks and troughs.

CHAPTER 4: The Constants of Change

Newton’s basic insight was that changes in nature can be described by mathematical processes.
Stewart explains how detailed consideration of what happens to a cannonball fired out of a
cannon helps us towards Newton’s fundamental law, that force is equal to mass multiply by
acceleration. Newton invented calculus to help work out solutions to moving bodies. Its two
basic operations which are integration and differentiation. Differentiation is the technique for
finding rates of change; integration is the technique for ‘undoing’ the effect of differentiation.
Calculating rates of change is a crucial aspect of maths, engineering, cosmology and many other
areas.

CHAPTER 5: From Violins to Videos

A fascinating historical recap of how initial investigations into the way a violin string vibrates
gave rise to formulae and equations. It turned out to be useful in mapping electricity and
magnetism, which turned out to be aspects of the same fundamental force, understanding
which underpinned the invention of radio, radar, TV etc, taking in contributions from Michael
Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, Heinrich Hertz and Giulielmo Marconi. Stewart makes the point
that mathematical theory tends to start with the simple and immediate and grow ever-more
complicated. This is because you have to start somewhere.

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