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“Ian Stewart”
Submitted by:
Elaine Claudette Niebres
Jessa Belle Eubion
Aira Janine Belleza
John Gabriel Espares
Kent Yrone Fran Regondola
Submitted to:
Ms. Mary Ann De Lara
Date:
September 6, 2022
Chapter 1: The Natural’s Order
When we hear the word "Mathematics", the first thing that springs to mind
is numbers. Numbers are the heart of mathematics, an all-pervading
influence, the raw materials out of which a great deal of mathematics is
forged. Mathematics simplifies that everything we do is mathematics since
every inch we do, it needed numbers to calculate everything those
movements involved.
"You can also record the count as scratches on pieces of wood or bone"
this sentence explained that mathematics is really needed in our daily lives
because we can't do anything if mathematics is not in our way, like how can
we do if we can't count numbers there will be a lot of failures if we compiled
it to become total, so it indicates that we really should know how to record
and total the equations since mathematics is really important in our daily
lives.
The chapter 5 titled “From Violin to Videos” demonstrated how the vibration
of a single violin string could set off a series of ideas and discoveries that
eventually resulted in the invention of television. Everything began with a
single violin string, which vibrated when it was pulled. Then, it was
determined by the works of Euler and Bernoulli that the fundamental
vibrational elements are sinusoidal waves. The wave equation was later
developed by Euler and used in the study of fluid dynamics, sound theory,
and theories of electricity and magnetism. Years later, it paved the way for
physicist Michael Faraday to discover electromagnetism.
Faraday's successor, mathematician James Clerk Maxwell, used
mathematical equations to describe Faraday's idea about induction. The
distributions of magnetic and electrical charge throughout the space.
Finally, this resulted in the existence of visible electromagnetic waves
(which travel with light and produce different colors). This is how
mathematical equations work to bring the world from simple to complex
discovery.
The idea is that a great discovery must begin with something
straightforward. The simplicity of nature is revealed by mathematics, which
also enables us to extrapolate from straightforward examples to the
complexity of the real world.