THE NATURAL ORDER - Mathematics in The Modern World

THE NATURAL
ORDER
Introduction
Mathematics is all around us. As we discover more and
more about our environment and our surroundings, we see hat
nature can be describe mathematically. From the beauty of
things, and different phenomena. We sees the world in a
mathematical way and manages to convey the wonder,
strangeness and powerful ideas and insights which seeing the
world in terms of patterns and regularities, shapes, numbers that
math gives us. It made other people to see the world the way
mathematician sees it, where there are clues and information
which can lead us to deeper understanding of the patterns and
harmonies all around us.
We live in a universe of patterns
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
• A German astronomer wrote a small book, “The Six-
Cornered Snowflakes” as a gift to his sponsor.
• He argued that snowflakes must be made by packing
tiny identical units together.
• Performed no experiments, just thought very hard
about various and pieces of common knowledge.
• His main evidence was the six fold symmetry of
snowflakes.
Snowflakes
• A snowflake is either a single ice crystal or a series of ice
crystals which falls through the Earth's atmosphere.
• A snowflake often has six-fold symmetry.
Seasonal Cycles
• A season is a period of the year that is distinguished by
special climate conditions. The four seasons—spring, summer,
fall, and winter—follow one another regularly.
Honeycomb
• If you place a large number of coins, then you get a
honeycomb arrangement, in which every coin- except those at
the edges—is surrounded by others arranged in a perfect
hexagon.
Stars
• The regular nightly motion of the stars, this time to the fact that
the Earth rotates.
Waves and Dunes
-are clues to the rules that govern the flow of
water, sand and air.
Tigers and Zebras, Leopards and Hyenas
tigers and zebra’s stripes, and leopard and hyenas spots
attest to mathematical regularities in biological growth and
form.
Rainbows and Raindrops
It tells us about the scattering of light and
indirectly confirms that raindrops are spheres.
Lunar Halos Planetary
Motion
• A ring around the moon • Planets were clue to the
• A clue to the shapes of rules behind gravity and
ice crystals motion.
“Mathematics is to Nature”
• As Sherlock Holmes is to evidence.
• Dr. Watson who was not as sensitive to such matter,
and could only look on the baffled admiration until
the master revealed his chain of impeccable logic.
Two types of Patterns known to Humanity
Fractals Chaos
• Geometric shapes that • A kind of apparent
repeat their structure on randomness whose
ever-finer scales. origins are entirely
deterministic.
Natures Pattern are Numerical
Phases of the Moon
• Makes a complete cycle • The year is three hundred
from new moon to full moon and sixty-five days-roughly.
and back again every
twenty-eight days.
Legs Starfish
Humans have two legs
Starfish have five arms (or
Cats have four legs ten, eleven, even
Insects have six legs seventeen) depending on
Spiders have eight legs the species.
Petals of Flowers
The number of petals is one of Each number is obtained
the numbers that occur in the by adding the two previous
strange sequence
numbers together.
3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89
Ex. Ex. 3+5=8
Lilies have three 5+8=13 and so on.
Buttercups have five The same numbers can be
Many delphiniums have eight found in the spiral patterns
Marigolds have thirteen of seed in the head of the
Aster have 21 sunflower.
Most daisies have thirty-four,
fifth-five or eighty-nine.
Numerology
• The easiest and consequently the most dangerous —method for
finding a patterns.
• Kepler devised a simple and tidy theory for the evidence of
precisely six planets (in his time, only Mercury, Venus, Earth,
Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were known.
• He also discovered a very strange pattern relating the orbital
period of the time it takes to go once around the sun—to its
distance from the Sun.
• Recall that square of a number is what you get when simply
multiply it by itself.
• Ex.: The cube of 4 is 4x4x4x4=64.
• The big problem with numerological pattern seeking
is that it generates millions of accidental for each
universal?
• For example.
- There are three stars roughly equally spaced and
in a straight line in the belt of the constellations.
- Io, Europa, and Ganymede are three of Jupiter’s
larger satellites. They orbit in planet in respectively
1.77, 3.55, and 7.16 days. Each these numbers is almost
exactly twice the previous one.
Geometric Patterns
Main shapes that appealed to mathematicians recently

- triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, circles, ellipses,
spirals, cubes, spheres, cones, and so on.
- These shapes can be fund in nature.
For examples :
-Rainbows, a collection of circles, one of each color.
-Human eye, ripples on the fund, on butterfly wings
- V shaped formed behind a moving boat
- Swirling spiral whirlpool and tiny vortices
- Vast spiral of a hurricane
Patterns of Movement
• Human walk, the feet strike the ground in a regular rhythm
(left-right, left-right, left-right)
• Locomotion extends to the scuttling insects
• Flight of birds
• Pulsation of jellyfish
• Wavelike movement of fish, worms and snakes
Conclusion
Mathematics reveals hidden patterns that help us
understand the world around us. Now much more than arithmetic
and geometry, mathematics today is diverse discipline that deals
with patterns in nature through observation. As a practical matter,
it is a science of pattern and order. The natural world is full of
order and regularity, there is an abundance of detail in nature that
we can see, even in things that seemed to be unstructured, there is
patterns. All of those things were developed in a formal system of
thought for recognizing, classifying and exploiting patterns, and a
mathematics as a way to organize and systematized our ideas
about it without using mathematical training, but to see the nature
from mathematicians point of view.

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