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Name: Margareth S.

Barber Score
GED102 - MMW
Program & Year: BSCE Year 1 Section: A1 Writing Exercise
Student No.: 2021107719 Date: 05/25/2022 Synthesis Essay
1st Quarter 2021-2022

Choose a chapter in Ian Stewart’s “Nature’s Numbers” and write a synthesis essay. {Write in paragraph
form – without subheadings. Paragraph 1 is the introduction, paragraphs 2-4 comprise the body -the
synthesis, and the last paragraph is the conclusion}

THE HIDDEN TRUTH AND BEAUTY OF NATURAL REALITY


Man has always sought to determine how his natural surroundings work and has been
fascinated about how things work for millennia. It is in man's nature to learn and explore new
things, hence why they are the epitome of species in natural selection, as this is the reason they
have been able to survive and progress. This urge to explore has its beginnings in man's ability
to observe patterns hidden within nature, which piqued his interest. Since the advent of the so-
called "wise man" 200,000 years ago and the beginning of civilization 6,000 years ago, humanity
has never stopped trying to figure out what these patterns are actually about. These patterns not
only helped them transcend, but they also defined their existence, with the notion that if humanity
can break these patterns, they will eventually comprehend where they originated from and how
the universe works. But what are these patterns, and how do they help them advance?
The first chapter of Ian Stewart's book, Nature's Numbers, gives a comprehensive
explanation of these patterns, how a man can recognize them, and how they are beautiful. These
patterns were discovered a few billion years ago when the universe was beginning to take shape.
All of these patterns are now present in the natural environment, from animal stripes and spots to
the motion of water that is similar to the movement of air and is identical to the motion of sand, all
of which appear to be familiar. Man has already seen bits of these patterns through his astute
observations, even before scientific discovery. Snowflakes are made up of microscopic units
joined together, as Johannes Kepler, a brilliant scientist known for his laws of planetary motion.
This would eventually be the predecessor to the concept of atoms. Another example is the Greeks'
observation of moving stars traveling in different directions across the sky, which they called
planetes (AKA: wanderers) or planets, as we would eventually call them. Every aspect of nature
appears to have detailed and precise patterns that share similar features with other objects, even
if they are different or not obvious to one another.
These patterns appear to be found in every element of the natural world, a perfect and
beautiful design that a universal architect most likely created. Patterns like this aren't simply pretty
to look at; they're also hints at a big mystery about the principles that govern natural processes.
Nature occasionally reveals itself to man, and with these indications, it is simple to see;
nevertheless, to comprehend it, humans use it as a chance to classify and employ it, resulting in
the formation of mathematics. As man got more interested in studying these patterns, they created
means to convey their understanding; mathematics became that language, and humanity is still
learning it today in order to comprehend how the universe works. They've also discovered two
sorts of patterns as a result of their research: fractals, which are geometric shapes that repeat
themselves on fine scales, and chaos, which arises in random distributivity. It employs a variety
of processes to define these types of natural patterns. I'll go over these procedures in detail.
The first is Numerical Patterns, in which numbers are used to recognize natural patterns
such as how many petals a flower has, how many legs a particular animal has, and how many
phases of the moon there are. Numerology is a numeric technique that allows them to easily
define meaningful number patterns while generating accidental ones that are more difficult to
discover due to their randomness. Aside from the numerical procedure, geometric terms can be
used to identify patterns. The basic idea is that every item generates specific shapes within its
framework. The vast design of the natural world may be recognized in these geometrical patterns,
which have a precise shape that appears similar to others and is easy to recognize with the human
eye. There is also the pattern of forms, in which objects around us, even living things, have a form
that is quite symmetrical in its natural figurative design, and their shapes and patterns form a
precise figure that is sometimes perfect and sometimes imperfect. Aside from that, there's the
movement pattern; practically every object has its own movement pattern. This is generally visible
in animal motion, such as how their feet move in a seemingly equal rhythmic pattern as they move
around their environment. Finally, one of the newest observed patterns is that those who exist
where humans thought they were just random and formless in the first place, including such
clouds, which may differ in shape (knowing that there are different kinds of clouds) and are
primarily random in form, but they share distinct patterns in their own formation or patches. Those
formations appear the same no matter how far apart they are. When clouds change from gas to
liquid, researchers discovered that they have the same scale variance as other phase transitions,
forming a pattern.
As a conclusion and understanding to this chapter, the pattern of nature is a complex but
interesting discovery for humankind. Nature leaves us crumbs so that we might understand her,
and these crumbs are presented in the natural world we are surrounded by in the shape of
patterns. It took a long time to figure this out due to the extreme degree of complexity, and new
patterns are still being discovered. We could wonder why we are so eager to comprehend these
patterns. Still, in order to do so, we must know that the only reason we have progressed to our
transcendence in modernity, how we have constructed our societies and ways of life, all of our
technological advancements, and how we have arrived at this point in time is because of these
patterns. It was necessary to sustain life and existence. As we progress further into the future,
man is becoming increasingly curious about where and why we exist and who we are within the
great cosmos' beam. And to end my conclusion, I would like to add the quote of Neil deGrasse
Tyson, an astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator.
“Math is the language of the universe. So, the more equations you know, the more you
can converse with the cosmos.”

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