NAME: Ritz Angelica V.

Barrita SUBJECT: MATH 100 Math in the Modern World

COURSE & YEAR: BS Architecture 2-C DATE SUBMITTED : October 17, 2019

NATURE’S NUMBERS

Professor Ian Stewart has put together a very interesting novel for those people
who are particularly intrigued by physics and the world of mathematics. He also
explained new and unsuspected structures in the world around us.

Chapter 5: FROM VIOLINS TO VIDEOS

Summing up, this chapter deals with a story in which the pure and applied
aspects of mathematics combined to yield something far more powerful and compelling.
It begins about the problem of the vibrating string. Whereas, strings vibrates much too
fast for a naked eye to see. In this chapter it involves the study of physics where
different theories and controversies found. With the resolutions of all the theories and
arguments, the vibrations of a violin string ceased to be a mystery. Lastly, it is
mathematics that reveals the simplicities of nature, and permits us to generalize from
simple examples to the complexities of the real world.

Chapter 6: BROKEN SYMMETRY

This chapter talks about symmetry, and is somehow related to nature. Nature's
symmetries can be found on every scale, from the structure of subatomic particles to
that of the entire universe. In short, nature is symmetric because we live in a mass-
produced universe-analogous to the surface of a pond. But, what is symmetry?
Symmetry is a mathematical concept as well as an aesthetic one, and it allows us to
classify different types of regular pattern and distinguish between them. Symmetry
breaking is a more dynamic idea, describing changes in pattern. Before we can
understand where nature's patterns come from and how they can change, we must find
a language in which to describe what they are.

Chapter 7: RHYTHM OF LIFE

To sum it all up, I think this chapter have presented the relation of mathematics
through biological motions of legged organism especially animals. Most of this chapter
is about the study of gaits, a branch of mathematical biology that grew up with the
NAME: Ritz Angelica V. Barrita SUBJECT: MATH 100 Math in the Modern World
COURSE & YEAR: BS Architecture 2-C DATE SUBMITTED : October 17, 2019

question “How do animals move?” and “Why do they move like that?” To introduce a
little more variety the rest is about rhythmic patterns that occur in entire animal
populations, one dramatic example being the synchronized flashing of some species of
fireflies, which is seen in some regions of the Far East. Although, biological interactions
that takes place in individual animals are very different from those that takes place in
populations of animals, there is an underlying mathematical unity, and of the message
of this chapter is that the same general mathematical concepts can apply to many
different levels and to many different things. Nature respects this unity and makes good
use of it.

Chapter 8: DO DICE PLAY GOD?

This chapter is an overall summary of what we call the Mathematics of Chaos.

Chaos theory usually involves the study of range of phenomena exhibiting a sensitive
dependence on initial conditions. From chaotic toys with randomly blinking lights to
wisps and eddies of cigarette smoke, chaotic behavior is generally irregular and
disorderly; other examples include weather patterns, certain neurological and cardiac
activity, the stock market, and certain electrical networks of computers. Although,
chaos often means random and unpredictable, it actually obeys strict mathematical
rules deriving from equations, that can be formulated and studied. Today, there are
several scientific fields devoted to the study of how complicated behavior can arise in
systems from simple rules and how minute changes in the input of nonlinear systems
can lead to large differences in the output; such fields includes chaos and cellular
automated theory.

Chapter 9: DROPS, DYNAMICS AND DAISIES

In this final chapter, it tackles about the disorders of the systems of the
universe. In short it talks about the three examples of simplicity emerging from
complexity, the water drop, population dynamics, and fibonacci numbers. Those three
examples, from very different parts of science. Each, in its own way, an eye-opener.
Each a case study in the origins of nature's numbers-the deep mathematical regularities
NAME: Ritz Angelica V. Barrita SUBJECT: MATH 100 Math in the Modern World
COURSE & YEAR: BS Architecture 2-C DATE SUBMITTED : October 17, 2019

that can be detected in natural forms. And there is a common thread, an even deeper
message, buried within them.