Story of Maths 1:Language of the Universe

The Story of Maths

The movie entitled “The Language of the Universe” discussed and broadly explained the characteristics of the history of Mathematics. It was said that Mathematics was used to explain the usage of numbers as the universal language and its relevance to the study of numbers, shapes, motion, change and space. Mathematics is the science of pattern, this means that people living beforehand used the principle of patterns that was converted into numbers and used to solve problems and reveal the unknown relationships between the universe and Mathematics as a language. They have used math to measure tax land, conceptualized the 3-4-5 triangle, relate the measurement of moon from the earth, introduced Pythagoras and the Academy of Plato who stated the “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here.” and the 5 Platonic solids. The movie also tackled and entered the Library of Alexandria, presented the principles of Archimedes and a female mathematician called Hypatia, who taught in the school of Alexandria. Math documentation like this video contributed to the present studies of unknown creations that are soon to be discovered.

The hypothesis to some inventions can be revealed by these patterns of Mathematics. It was seen in the video clip that Egyptians used symbols that turned into grammars and used in the conversations in the community to solve mathematical problems. The host or narrator was Marcus du Sautoy, he explained how the theorems and principles of different people from the past dealt with numbers and how did they demonstrate the solutions using illustrations and numerical models. He also explained how the Egyptians, Greeks, Babylonians, Chinese and Indians or the ancient civilizations used Mathematics to develop the inventions that are soon to come out because of the patterns behind Mathematics. The ideology of the video was to discuss the nature of math and its great contribution in the present time. Assessments of mathematical questions are accomplished using the mathematical relations and ideologies that support their theories.

I realized that studying math is essential in our lives because it is not only used in our daily living but it can also improve soon to be inventions that will be useful in the future. Usage of mathematical symbols are significant in the universal language because all different individuals from around the world can understand each other when it comes to mathematical equations because it will yield the same results since it has the same method used. I now study math not only for the sake of passing the course but also utilizing the methods brought by the ancient civilization to create new amazing things or inventions that will later help the future generations in their studies about math. Analyzing and understanding the history of math is very complicated so it must be learned using terms that would be easily comprehend by the people who wants to learn and appreciate math.

As of now, math can still be improved by using the theorems and principles of the great mathematicians in the world, introducing new symbols, equations and mathematical formulas. We should be grateful to those mathematicians who discovered and transformed the tool for counting analytical problems of the world. The mathematicians somehow focused on Geometry that needed proofs to their different theories. The world needs further progresses in the field of mathematics because great discoveries are always open for new improvements.