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Chapter I: ORIGIN OF MATHEMATICS
Mathematics is all about taking rather complex problems and turning them into
something of value by making it objective and measurable. In that way, it can help
organize information and put them into various patterns through their value (which
is something that math can do). It uses pure logic for solving making even the most
complicated problems solvable and predictable through computation.
Human mind and culture have developed a formal system of thought for recognizing,
classifying, and exploiting patterns. We call it mathematics. Our world is full of
patterns thus, we live in a Universe of Patterns. We can see patterns in many different
ways. Tigers and zebras are covered in patterns of stripes, leopards and hyenas are
covered in patterns of spots. The tiger's stripes and the hyena's spots attest to
mathematical regularities in biological growth and form. Patterns possess utility as
well as beauty that we can see in nature. By using mathematics to organize and
systematize our ideas about patterns, we have discovered a great secret: nature's
patterns are not just there to be admired, they are vital clues to the rules that govern
natural processes. There is much beauty in nature's clues, and we can all recognize
it without any mathematical training. Rainbows tell us about the scattering of light,
and indirectly confirm that raindrops are spheres. The regular nightly motion of the
stars is also a clue, this time to the fact that the Earth rotates. The planets were clues
to the rules behind gravity and motion. Kepler was fascinated with mathematical
patterns in nature, and he devoted much of his life to looking for them in the behavior
of the planets. He devised a simple and tidy theory for the existence of precisely six
planets (in his time only Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were
known). Kepler found that if you take the cube of the distance of any planet from
the Sun and divide it by the square of its orbital period, you always get the same
number. Through numerical patterns; one of the key steps toward Isaac Newton's
theory of gravity, Kepler's neat, tidy theory for the number of planets has been buried
without trace.
Chapter II: WHAT MATHEMATICS ARE FOR?
Mathematics is used to solved different problems Communing with nature
does all of us good: it reminds us of what we are. Painting pictures,
sculpting sculptures, and writing poems are valid and important ways to
express our feelings about the world and about ourselves. One of the
strangest features of the relationship between mathematics and the "real
world," but also one of the strongest, is that good mathematics, whatever
its source, eventually turns out to be useful. Mathematics has developed
alongside our understanding of nature, each reinforcing the other. Each of
nature's patterns is a puzzle, nearly always a deep one. Mathematics is
brilliant at helping us to solve puzzles. It is a more or less systematic way
of digging out the rules and structures that lie behind some observed
pattern or regularity. Whatever the reasons, mathematics definitely is a
useful way to think about nature. We want to understand how they
happen; to understand why they happen, which is different; to organize
the underlying patterns and regularities in the most satisfying way; to
predict how nature will behave; to control nature for our own ends; and to
make practical use of what we have learned about our world. Mathematics
helps us to do all these things, and often it is indispensable. Without
mathematics we would never have convinced ourselves that matter really
is made from atoms, or have worked out how the atoms are arranged. The
discovery of genes-and later of the molecular structure of DNA, the
genetic material-relied heavily on the existence of mathematical
clues.
CHAPTER 3:WHAT MATHEMATICS IS ABOUT
Most people do not have an accurate picture of mathematics. For many
ways, mathematics is torture of test, homework, and problems and problems.
The very word problem suggest unpleasantness and anxiety. “The
mathematics is not the problem” (Burger, 2000). When we hear the word
"mathematics," the first thing that springs to mind is numbers. Numbers are
the heart of mathematics. “Some people view mathematics as a set of formulas
to be applied to a list of problems at the ends of textbooks. Toss that idea into
trash. We need to see that mathematics is a network of intriguing ideas”
(Burger, 2000). It’s almost impossible to get through a day without using
maths in some way, because our world is full of numbers to handle and
problems to solve. Studying the maths in everyday life provides you with the
tools to make sense of it all, making life that little bit easier. Numerical and
logical thinking play a part in each of these everyday activities, and in many
others. A good understanding of maths in everyday life is essential for making
sense of all the numbers and problems life throws at us.
Between 400 and 1200 AD, the concept of zero was invented and accepted as
denoting a number. For a long time "one" was not considered a number because it
was thought that a number of things ought to be several of them. Mathematics uses
symbols, but it no more is those symbols than music is musical notation or language
is strings of letters from an alphabet.
CHAPTER 4: THE CONSTANT OF CHANGE
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. Nature, the creation of higher
beings, is by definition perfect, and ideal forms are mathematical perfection,
so of course the two go together. And perfection was thought to be
unblemished by change.
We know that objects or particles can move on different types of trajectories.

Those which are moving along a straight line have the mathematical property
of moving at constant rate of change. The constant rate of change
definition is very simple and logical: "An object moving uniformly with
respect to time, is said is moving at a constant rate of change." What is
happening looks like a retreat: if it is too hard to find a formula, then try an
approximation; if approximations aren't available, try a qualitative
description. But it is wrong to see this development as a retreat, for what this
change of meaning has taught us is that for questions like the three-body
problem, no formulas can exist. We can prove that there are qualitative aspects
to the solution that a formula cannot capture. The search for a formula in such
questions was a hunt for a mare's nest.
“We desire for a lot of things. What is important today may not hold the same
place tomorrow. Nothing is constant in life, not even that heart beating inside
you. It also beats with a rhythm. Believe in the fact that whatever happens in
your life is always for a reason- be it good or bad. It will always make you a
better individual- you will either have a lesson to learn or a memory to share.
And what is LIFE without CHANGE? Without change life will be stagnant.
It will become dull and sluggish. Imagine if everything was same, man would
still have been an Ape, living in jungles. Theory of Evolution is the biggest
example of change for good. Let your life take a natural turn. Be spontaneous.
Be alive. Be fun. Be the magic you want in your life. Be the change you want
to see in the world. Accept the fact that things will not always be the way you
want them to be. There will always be things beyond your control”
(Everything will change one day, Aug. 2017)
Reference:
https://cismasemanuel.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/ian-stewart-numerele-
naturii.pdf
(Ian Stewrart’s Nature Numbers)
Additional Reference:
A Synthesis Paper
Presented to the Central
Bicol State of Agriculture by Ralph Steven Branzuela
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/The-importance-of-maths-in-
everyday-life/articleshow/48323205.cms
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/245696
https://www.quora.com/Is-change-the-only-constant-thing
Books:
The Heart of mathematics an invitation to effective thinking, Burger 2000.

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Chapter I: ORIGIN OF MATHEMATICS

We know that objects or particles can move on different types of trajectories.

(Ian Stewrart’s Nature Numbers)

The Heart of mathematics an invitation to effective thinking, Burger 2000.

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