Math, the beauty of order in nature

Physics, chemistry, biology, computers, Social, languages, etc… There are so many subjects in the world. The question that may come up in most of our minds is that why would we want to know more about Math? Isn’t it just solving various problems with different techniques?

That’s exactly what I would like to tell you. Math is not only about solving different problems and getting the right answer, it’s about how you solve it. About why do you go about solving it in a particular way and go more deeper into the concept. In math, the process of finding the solution becomes more critical than the solution itself.

Math is beautiful. Beautiful because with just numbers, twisted and turned unique patterns like fractals can be created, an infinitely twirling Fibonacci spiral can be made and many more magical mysteries of nature can be unfolded. And ‘numbers’ is only the tip of the iceberg. It’s abstractness is what makes it more beautiful.

Math gives a touch upon every subject in the world. You may have noticed in many memes or whenever calculus was taught in school, there were many students who told me “I don’t know when all of this will be used in the real world”. Well, if it weren’t for calculus, we wouldn’t have had the various appealing buildings being constructed or known the exact length of power cable needed to connect two substations, which are miles away from each other. Many concepts deduced in Physics would not have been proved if it weren’t for math. Architecture, Engineering, Science, Medicine, Economics, every field needs Math.

In school, among all the subjects, Math was the most interesting one that I had come across. My liking for it really became an interest in 8th grade, especially in geometry. I used to grab hold of a proof and try to think and attack the problem in different ways trying to find out how it can be proved. Then this subject became my main interest in 10th grade, when I came to know and learnt more about one of the greatest mathematician of his time, Srinivasa Ramanujan. His discoveries were so amazing that I was awestruck by most of his series and equations. After seeing the work of Ramanujan, I was most excited in the concept of calculus. So much that, in 11th grade, I finished calculus entirely before school began.

I have recently completed my B.Sc. in Pure Mathematics and am going to use this platform to…think out loud, in a way. Anything I read or learn or any new Math concept I jump into or a university module that I want to go back to, I would write about it here. It’s like discussing exciting concepts, ideas and interests with many other math enthusiasts in the world.

Math is a way of understanding the symmetry and order in the chaos of nature. It is indeed truly said that “Pure mathematics is in its own way the poetry of logical ideas”