1.

The CN Tower in Toronto, the tallest tower and

freestanding structure in the world, contains
the golden ratio in its design. The ratio of
observation deck at 342 meters to the total
height of 553.33 is 0.618 or phi, the reciprocal
of phi.

2. Cracks can also be found on the barks of trees

which show some sort of weakness in the bark.
The meander is one of a series of regular
sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings
in the channel of
the body of water.

BEHAVIOR OF NATURE
Behavior of nature can be observed around us.
Natural regularities of nature:
Symmetry Fractals Spirals
Trees Meanders Waves
Foams Tessellations Cracks
Stripes Spots
1. a spiral shape called logarithmic spiral.

5. Age of the trees can be

determined by applying
dendrochronology which is a APPLICATIONS OF MATHEMATICS IN THE WORLD
In our daily life, we use mathematics directly or
scientific method of dating based
indirectly in various fields. The application of
on the amount of rings found in
mathematical methods in different fields such as
the core of a tree. science, engineering, business, computer science
and industry is a combination of mathematical
6. Turtles have growth rings called science and specialized knowledge. For example,
“scutes” which are hexagonal. statistics, combinatorics, and graph theory are used
Scutes estimates the age of the turtle. by investigators to solve crimes.
Smallest scute is in the center and is the oldest one, Other applications of mathematics are in
while the largest ones on the outside are the newer forensic science, medicine, engineering, information
ones. technology, cryptography, archaeology, social
7. Lightning during storms creates fractals. Foam sciences, political science and other fields.
bubbles formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or 1. In forensic, mathematics is applied specifically
solid. the differential and integral calculus to clarify
the blurred image to clear image. Another
application of calculus is optimization (maximize
or minimize) surface areas, volumes, profit and
cost analysis, projectile motion, etc.
2. In medical field, much of a function of a protein
is determined by its shape and how the pieces

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 move. Many drugs are designed to change the difference and integral equations arise for the
shape or motions of a protein by modeling solution of these models.
using geometry and related areas.
Mathematics is also being applied in the 9. In political Science, political analysts study past
development of medicine to cure diseases. election results to see changes in voting
patterns and the influence of various factors on
3. In fluid dynamics, engineers use numerical voting behavior or switching of votes among
analysis in phenomena involving heat, political parties and mathematical models for
electricity and magnetism, relativistic Conflict Resolution using Game Theory and
mechanics, quantum mechanics and other Statistics.
theoretical constructs.
10. In music and arts, the rhythm that we find in all
4. In Information Technology, modern computer music notes is the result of innumerable
are invented through the help of mathematics. permutations and combinations. Music
An important area of applications of theorists understand musical structure and
mathematics in the development of formal communicate new ways of hearing music by
mathematical theories related to the applying set theory, abstract algebra, and
development of computer science. Computer number theory.
science development includes logic, relations,
functions, basic set theory, counting
techniques, graph theory, combinatorics,
discrete probability, recursion, recurrence
relations and number theory, computer-
oriented numerical analysis and Operation
Research techniques.

5. Cryptography is a combination of both

mathematics and computer science and is
affiliated closely with information theory,
computer security and engineering. It is used in
applications present in technologically
advanced societies, examples include the
security of ATM cards, computer passwords and
electronic commerce.

6. In archaeology, archaeologists use a variety of

mathematical and statistical techniques to
present the data from archaeological surveys
and try to find patterns to shed on past human
behavior an in carbon dating artifacts.

7. In Social Sciences such as economics, sociology,

psychology and linguistics all now make
extensive use of mathematical models, using
the tools of calculus, probability, game theory,
and network theory.

8. In Economics, mathematics such as matrices,

probability and statistics are used. The models
may be stochastic or deterministic, linear or
non-linear, static or dynamic, continuous or
discrete and all types of algebraic, differential,

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