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Why Study

Maths?
Isn’t it BORING,

and USELESS in the


real world anyway???
Quadratic Equations
Invented by the Babylonians
3000BC
Quadratic Equations in
Nature
The Sunflower
Spiral Arrangements in
Sunflowers

Left-pointing spirals: 21 Right-pointing spirals:


34
Fibonacci Sequence

Fibonacci (c. 1170 – c. 1250)

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144,


233, 377, 610, 987, …
Johannes Kepler (1571-
1630)
 Post Renaissance
Mathematician
Key figure in 17th century
Astronomy
 Discovered the orbit of the
planet Mars around the Sun – it
was an ellipse not a circle as
previously thought – break
through for Astronomy
 Kepler’s Laws of Planetary
motion used as the foundation of
one of Newton’s laws on gravity.
Kepler's Law of Planetary
Motion
Planet in motion
Planet rotates around the
Sun in an Ellipse

Sun
Equation of an Ellipse

2
x 2
y
[ ] []
a
+
b
=1
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