Ian Stewart Nature's Numbers Chapter 2 "What is Mathematics For" - Students Vlog — Transcript
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- 0:17mathematics and for today's vlog
- 0:20i'm kizaya hi
- 0:23i'm nathan c p at sarga
- 0:26hi there you guys ila here
- 0:31let's talk about ian stewart's book
- 0:33entitled nature's numbers
- 0:35chapter 2 what is mathematics for
- 0:38nature is full of patterns which we can
- 0:41admire
- 0:42and can remind us of what we are but in
- 0:45a human culture we often to ask
- 0:48house wise what or question
- 0:52but mentioned in page 14
- 0:55it says mathematics is brilliant at
- 0:58helping us
- 0:59to solve puzzles it is more or less
- 1:02systematic way
- 1:03of digging out the rules and structures
- 1:06that
- 1:07lie behind some observed pattern or
- 1:09regularity
- 1:11and then using those rules and structure
- 1:13to explain
- 1:14what's going on so mathematics helps us
- 1:17to understand
- 1:19the world we're living in today kepler
- 1:21discovered that
- 1:22planets move not only in circles
- 1:26but ellipses the nature of acceleration
- 1:29is not a fundamental quality but a rate
- 1:32of change
- 1:33and there it is invented calculus that
- 1:35helps us
- 1:36to work out the rates of change and the
- 1:38story of it
- 1:40brings out two of the main things that
- 1:43the mathematics
- 1:44is for that is mentioned in page 17
- 1:47firstly is providing the tools that let
- 1:51scientists calculate what nature is
- 1:54doing
- 1:55secondly is providing new questions
- 1:58for mathematics to sort out on their own
- 2:01satisfaction
- 2:02these are respectedly applied
- 2:05pure mathematics the chapter gives
- 2:08us clear understanding and how important
- 2:11mathematics
- 2:12is in our daily life it is a help to
- 2:15verify ourselves
- 2:17for you to express our feelings through
- 2:19the beauty
- 2:20of parents sarah mentions
- 2:24one of the oddities paradoxes are
- 2:27thought provoking things that come
- 2:28up in many science points
- 2:32which is the early way that with
- 2:35mathematics
- 2:36mathematics well done whatever source no
- 2:39matter how abstract
- 2:41it's origin eventually it carries out
- 2:44to be used to be applicable
- 2:48to the real world to explain
- 2:52some aspects of nature with the help of
- 2:55map
- 2:56we can better understand life on earth
- 2:59if we said to page 18
- 3:02mathematics is in the science of
- 3:04patterns
- 3:05every nature exploits just about every
- 3:08pattern
- 3:09that there is which is why you keep
- 3:13discovery patterns everywhere we
- 3:17humans express
- 3:21this balance in numbers but make sure
- 3:23that
- 3:24she doesn't use numbers as such
- 3:28she use the patterns and shapes and
- 3:30possibilities
- 3:32which the numbers express
- 3:36many philosophers wonder why is there a
- 3:38deep congruence between the human mind
- 3:40and the structure of the universe
- 3:42did god make the universe mathematically
- 3:45and implanted the understanding of math
- 3:47within us
- 3:47is the universe made out of math because
- 3:50i stand to believe that the world and
- 3:52even us humans are made up of
- 3:53mathematics
- 3:54we would never be convinced of what we
- 3:56are now without the proof of mathematics
- 4:00examples are here in pages 19-23
- 4:03are number one the discoveries of genes
- 4:06and the latent
- 4:07molecular structure of dna number two
- 4:09the notice of tiny
- 4:11numerical relationship and how
- 4:13proportions of plant's different
- 4:14characteristics
- 4:15number three the double helix structure
- 4:18of dna
- 4:19number four white snails have spiral
- 4:21shells and number five
- 4:22computer stimulation of the evolution of
- 4:25an eye from an initial mutation
- 4:26providing for skin cells sensitive to
- 4:28life
- 4:29published by danielle nelson and suzanne
- 4:32folger
- 4:33in 1994 math helps us
- 4:36determine the results of something like
- 4:39like how we know
- 4:40from the dna of our parents running in
- 4:42our body that's what isn't it symbolic
- 4:44patterns appears wherever we look
- 4:46wherever we are
- 4:48we can use mathematic geometry in all
- 4:50different variables
- 4:51in page 24 of the book it stays there
- 4:54that the resonance is the relationship
- 4:56between periodically moving bodies
- 4:58in which three cycles lock together so
- 5:00that they can take up the same
- 5:02relative positions at regular intervals
- 5:05the cycle time is the period of the
- 5:07system
- 5:08the individual bodies have different
- 5:10breeds the moon's traditional period is
- 5:12the same as its revolution around the
- 5:14earth so
- 5:15there is a one is the one resonance of
- 5:17its orbital and rotational period
- 5:20rather the dynamics of solar system is
- 5:22full of resonance
- 5:24mathematics doesn't just analyze it's
- 5:27also physics
- 5:28yeah predicts how all kinds of systems
- 5:31will work
- 5:31from aerodynamics which keeps plane
- 5:33applying to the amount of fertilizers
- 5:35required to increase club
- 5:37with the complicated calculation which
- 5:39keeps communication satellites
- 5:41in orbit around the earth so therefore
- 5:44sustained
- 5:44internet and mobile networks but why
- 5:47does philippines disable internet
- 5:48connection
- 5:50everything wouldn't be invented if it is
- 5:53not because of mathematics with the help
- 5:55of other sources as well
- 5:56so thanks to mathematics which helps
- 5:59discover these particular things
- 6:00and makes a life easier though just a
- 6:03matter of fact
- 6:05mathematics must be understood because
- 6:07mathematics
- 6:08is a tool to invent new things
- 6:12it is for everybody for the people for
- 6:15the nature
- 6:16for the person who hurts you who breaks
- 6:19your heart
- 6:20[Music]
- 6:22mathematics is applicable to any kinds
- 6:26of things
- 6:27whether we like it or not mathematics is
- 6:30a waving
- 6:31in all aspects of life
- 6:36anyone come and i had parody on
- 6:39mathematics
- 6:42something
- 6:45i have here my reasons for what is
- 6:47mathematics for
- 6:49mathematics must be continuous to be
- 6:51explored because without mathematics
- 6:52there would be no inventions or new
- 6:54discoveries
- 6:56we cannot be known for what we are today
- 6:58if it was not for the help of math
- 6:59in our life it gives us a clearer
- 7:02understanding of how things work and how
- 7:03we may predict future events that can
- 7:05help human society
- 7:07added to it math is useful in everything
- 7:09that we do
- 7:10and what we want to know about life it
- 7:13can be a tool to learn and to better
- 7:14understand vicinity
- 7:16chapter 2 basically deals with the
- 7:18significance of mathematics
- 7:20read back centuries before after this
- 7:22current generation
- 7:24and talks about where it was discovered
- 7:26for or simply its purposes
- 7:28math is required to better understand
- 7:30the goals almost everything around the
- 7:32world and
- 7:33things people are used for absolutely
- 7:35mathematics
- 7:36is the key yeah the key that can help us
- 7:39build a better future
- 7:40for a better generation furthermore
- 7:44chapter 2 tells the importance of
- 7:47mathematics
- 7:48when it comes to researching study
- 7:51reading researchers
- 7:52themselves who have a prediction of the
- 7:56possible things
- 7:57or phenomenon that could possibly happen
- 8:00to occur math is here
- 8:03you and everywhere without math
- 8:06in our life in nature
- 8:10and in everything human society
- 8:14with collapse and our civilization
- 8:17would start to go backwards so
- 8:20what is mathematics for math is for you
- 8:23for everything for everyone
- 8:26mathematics is life bye
- 8:32so like and subscribe
- 8:44you
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