Patterns are amazing.
Where can I really start? I could try and explain the most simple concepts of counting and numbers and the dimensionality of observations (for instance, you can count (dimension 0), then you can look for the change in numbers over time (dimension 1), then can look at changes in change or multiple aspects over time (dimension 2) and so forth).
But before math, there was nature. We see the patterns in nature; rings in a tree, spider webs, petals on a flower, the little dances that bees do (we love bees). We see how people have carved roads through nature, how we try to control nature and inevitably fail (think: Forest Fires more deadly now because of preventing small seasonal burns, trying to create more energy than was available which leads to Global Warming).
Everything is interrelated, because at the end of the day, it comes down to those two subjects. Everything else is just some type of interaction between Math and Nature. Think about sciences trying to use equations and relational laws to explain animal behavior, or how the social sciences try to increase the well-being of populations through understanding their actions (nature) and other numerical methods (math).
There is an underlying structure to everything, and we need to simultaneously open up the number of people able to work on these projects (i.e., HELP EACH OTHER OUT AND BE SUPPORTIVE) as well as make progress ourselves.
There is a reason why some numbers keep popping up more than others. The only way we can understand the future is by understanding the present and the past, and recognizing where that pattern is headed.
As a child, I used to look at the time and try to reduce it to the lowest possible ratio. It is 4:32pm where I am right now - that theoretically becomes 1:8 (or 1:2 if I am using the 24 hour clock).
It's now 2:17. I spent the last 2 minutes in absolute wonder.
Mark Klose, Massachusetts
Student Among Other Things
Where can I really start? I could try and explain the most simple concepts of counting and numbers and the dimensionality of observations (for instance, you can count (dimension 0), then you can look for the change in numbers over time (dimension 1), then can look at changes in change or multiple aspects over time (dimension 2) and so forth).
But before math, there was nature. We see the patterns in nature; rings in a tree, spider webs, petals on a flower, the little dances that bees do (we love bees). We see how people have carved roads through nature, how we try to control nature and inevitably fail (think: Forest Fires more deadly now because of preventing small seasonal burns, trying to create more energy than was available which leads to Global Warming).
Everything is interrelated, because at the end of the day, it comes down to those two subjects. Everything else is just some type of interaction between Math and Nature. Think about sciences trying to use equations and relational laws to explain animal behavior, or how the social sciences try to increase the well-being of populations through understanding their actions (nature) and other numerical methods (math).
There is an underlying structure to everything, and we need to simultaneously open up the number of people able to work on these projects (i.e., HELP EACH OTHER OUT AND BE SUPPORTIVE) as well as make progress ourselves.
There is a reason why some numbers keep popping up more than others. The only way we can understand the future is by understanding the present and the past, and recognizing where that pattern is headed.
As a child, I used to look at the time and try to reduce it to the lowest possible ratio. It is 4:32pm where I am right now - that theoretically becomes 1:8 (or 1:2 if I am using the 24 hour clock).
It's now 2:17. I spent the last 2 minutes in absolute wonder.
Mark Klose, Massachusetts
Student Among Other Things