Kenzel Lawas

Upon reading about Natural Order, I learned that everything in our universe have different patterns. This
pattern was being used very long time ago by our ancestors in discovering about our world. Even until
now, we are still discovering new patterns in our universe. In recognizing, classifying, and exploiting
patterns, we use “mathematics”. Through mathematics, we could completely understand the meaning
behind the patterns we see in our lives.

Some of the important ideas that I learned upon reading the chapter is that “Patterns possess utility as
well as beauty”. Yes! Patterns add beauty in our life. These includes symmetries, trees, spirals, and
waves. And these patterns help us to discover more about our nature as well as to generalize a broader
solution to a problem. Also, these are very useful in expressing, figuring out, and interpreting the
mysteries found in nature. Lastly, patterns helped us to discover more about the hidden things in our
universe that we live in as well as the beauty inside of it.

In this chapter, Stewart also told that numbers are the simplest mathematical objects, and numerical is
the simplest of nature’s pattern. Without numbers, there is no math. We cannot count and measure
without numbers. We cannot make a sequence without numbers. And we cannot form a pattern
without numbers.