Friday, January 31, 2014

A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel

Where's Infinity?


            This book was a written in a novel style for the readers to understand the flow of the story and to easily get related to the subject being discussed, it tried to explain the philosophical idea behind the concept of “Infinity” by the Indian characters; they are Ravi and his grandfather Bauji. His grandfather was a mathematician who was trying to discover another theory from one of the theories in mathematics. Bauji was trying to let Ravi discover the beauty of mathematical equations and its purposes to the present application.

            The story would somehow connect the principle of Infinity and the Euclidean Geometry. The enthralling relationship of the two would make the world think deeply. This issue was being compelled by the characters. This book was arguing about the Infinity and what does it mean to encounter the limits of it to the human understanding. The book also discussed the comparison between theology and mathematical views that introduced some implications to math. It was also asking about the certainty of it to our lives that revealed the insights of mathematics.

            The value of infinity is condensed to almost certain because of the combinations of different theories, hypotheses and statements of those mathematicians. Some people may think if infinity does exist or has a value, but when we come to think of it, we cannot really have a numerical representation of infinity because it was very far from the truth or certainty of mathematics.

            Finding certainty in mathematics and philosophy took some years for the mathematicians before they found out some techniques but not all of them found solutions there were also some hypotheses that were left hanging because they were not able to come up with solutions and so younger generations were triggered to continue their legacies.

            Mathematicians wanted their offspring to continue expressing the point of views of their mathematics to creatively achieve the development of the world using their new ideas. In this book Ravi’s grandfather wanted him to be involved with mathematics since his grandfather saw something in him that would connect them to mathematics.

            This book does not only wrote about math but also the implications brought by the faith and religion. I learned a lot from this book because the topic was explained very well for the readers to understand them. The different contradictions to this narrative novel were adopted by the mathematical community and was continued to find the solution for the problem of Infinity.



No comments:

Post a Comment