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Reading Assignment MATHEMATICS

The document summarizes key points from the first 5 chapters of a book on mathematics in the modern world. It includes favorite quotes and paragraphs from each chapter, with explanations provided. There is no disagreement with any points made. Each chapter is then summarized in 3-4 sentences, covering things like nature's patterns that inspired mathematics, what mathematics is used for, what it is about, Newton's contributions to describing changes, and how early investigations into violin strings led to many modern technologies. The external aspects of mathematics are differentiated by developing theories on how some aspects work.

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Reading Assignment MATHEMATICS

The document summarizes key points from the first 5 chapters of a book on mathematics in the modern world. It includes favorite quotes and paragraphs from each chapter, with explanations provided. There is no disagreement with any points made. Each chapter is then summarized in 3-4 sentences, covering things like nature's patterns that inspired mathematics, what mathematics is used for, what it is about, Newton's contributions to describing changes, and how early investigations into violin strings led to many modern technologies. The external aspects of mathematics are differentiated by developing theories on how some aspects work.

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Emmanuel Lopez Bo

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MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD

Reading Assignment:

1. Which sentence or paragraph in the first five chapters is your favorite? Why?

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.

2. Is there any statement or point of view in the first five chapters that you disagree
with?
 No, she pretty much explained it all

3. How would you summarize each chapter (in at least 3 sentences per chapter)

 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.

4. How does differentiate the external aspects of mathematics?


 By Developing Theories on how some aspects work

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