Is Math the Language of the Universe?

Mathematics is called the language of science. Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo

Galilei is attributed with the quote, "Mathematics is the language in which God has written the
universe." Most likely this quote is a summary of his statement in Opere Il Saggiatore: [The universe]
cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which
it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other
geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word.

“Mathematics is the language of the Universe“. You might have heard it a lot of times.
Mathematics is numbers and counting at its core and is believed to be inherently present in our
brains. Even before we formally named numbers as “one”, “two”, etc, we had the concept of
quantity. Modern research on our ancestral animals suggests that hunter-gatherers would also have
this concept of numbers and quantity. Tallying systems are considered the first kind of abstract
number system. The first known system with place value was the Mesopotamian base 60 system (ca.
3400 BC) and the earliest known base 10 system dates to 3100 BC in Egypt. The current numbers i.e
0-9 are called Hindu-Arabic numerals. These numbers were first developed in India around 500 AD
and were later modified into Arabic numerals. Abacus, one of the first tools for counting was
invented around 1200 BC. in China. It is believed that Mathematics as an organized science came
into existence during the classical Greek period of 600 BC to 300 BC. It was in this period when
Algebra came into existence and the first treatise of Algebra was written by Diophantus. The
Pythagorean theorem also came into existence in 525 BC which is in this period. Mathematics
developed with other branches of science into an ocean. Many new branches of mathematics came
into existence to analyze, explain, describe, and even predict the physical phenomenon happening
around us. In my opinion, yes math is the language of the universe because it can be found
everywhere, such as in flowers, the number of petals which the Fibonacci series, skin of an animal
which the pattern. Engineers and scientists from throughout the world use this method to
communicate. They build a house, buildings, devices, robots, and even the equipments that we use
are connected with math. The vocabulary of math draws from many different alphabets and includes
symbols unique to math. A mathematical equation can be stated in words to form a sentence that
has a noun and a verb, just like a sentence in a spoken language. For example is 3 + 5 = 8 could be
stated as "three added to five equals eight." By the language of math we can understand the things
in the universe so thanks to the math.

Almost anything can be described mathematically. People don't have to speak the same
language to communicate, they can do it using mathematics. We’ve seen a few mathematical
entities that are naturally existent in the universe, ranging in size from the tiniest to the largest. This
topic of the relationship between Math and the rest of the world is becoming increasingly
fascinating. I hope you agree with me that ‘Math is the language of the Universe.’