Andrew C.

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Mathematics in Modern World

Different Types of Patterns in Nature

1. Symmetries
Symmetry is from the Greek word ‘symmetria’,
that actually means “agreement in dimensions, due
proportion, arrangement”. In our daily language, this
refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful
proportion and balance. In the mathematical aspect of
life, symmetry means an object is invariant to any of
various transformations. This includes reflection, rotation or scaling.

2. Spirals
Spirals are actually patterns that exists naturally in
plants and natural systems. This also includes the
weather. Leonardo Fibonacci was one of the
mathematicians who tried to understand order in
nature. This pattern has also been the brainchild for
architectural forms and ancient symbols.

3. Meanders
One of an order of regular sinuos curves, bends,
loops, turns, or winding in the channel of a river,
stream, or other watercourse is a meander. This is
actually being produced by a river or a stream that
swings from side to side as it flows across its floodplain
or shifts its passage within a valley.

4. Waves
A wave is a disturbance that actually transfers
energy through matter or space. This may happen with
an ample or no associated mass transport. This
consists of oscillations or vibrations of a physical
medium around relatively fixed locations. Looking on a
mathematical way, waves, as functions of time and
space, are a assemblage of signals.
5. Foams
Foams are examples of dispersed media. Gas is
existing so it divides into gas bubbles of different sizes
(i.e., the material is polydisperse)—set-apart by liquid
regions that may form films, thinner and thinner when
the liquid phase drains out of the system films.

6. Tesselations

A tessellation of a flat surface is the tiling of

a plane using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles,
with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics,
tessellations can be generalized to higher
dimensions and a variety of geometries. A actual and
real physical tessellation is a tiling made of materials such as cemented ceramic squares
or hexagons. Such tilings may be decorative patterns, or may have functions such as
providing durable and water-resistant pavement, floor or wall coverings.

7. Cracks
When a displacement develops perpendicular to the
surface of the displacement, it is called a crack. If it
develops tangentially to the surface of displacement, it is
called a shear crack, slip band, or dislocation.