BIOMATH

I realized a lot of things about appreciating the products of biology and mathematics; these are called the branch of science and the science of patterns respectively. They are now discovering different breakthroughs using the concepts of biology and mathematics. You may not know that we are already applying math in biology without noticing its importance. Then I encountered this book about the discovery of the 6^th revolution in biology written by a mathematician named Ian Stewart. This book explained the involvement of mathematics in studying the nature of life. It was said in this book that biologists were already applying mathematical techniques like statistics in finding the probability of knowing the number of species that will be produce by a certain species.

Learning math with higher level is already tough, what more if you combined it with biology, the more it will be tough, right? But when we met a mathematician and told us that do not be afraid to come across ugly equations in learning because they can be used to solve biological problems. This mathematician was a product of University of the Philippines Mindanao, who graduated from BS Applied Mathematics and is now applying mathematical equations in studying biology. I was really amazed when she showed us the equations they made that helped them solved the problem about the cell. She really good, I must say.

Indeed, mathematics brought us everywhere and is now becoming more and more dynamic than ever. Some mathematicians used and applied numbers in the world of science and how these patterns was generalized to obtain a concrete formula in solving those equations. Another thing to be considered was the use of technology like computers to easily develop mathematical insights to biological processes. The author’s goal is to let the readers appreciate, understand mathematics’ point of views and explain how life works. This reference is saying that biologists apply mathematics through the patterns of number and shapes; these patterns was first related to rabbits and later on called Fibonacci numbers. There are a lot of biological studies that can be related to different concepts of math and some are yet to be discovered.

Mathematics is not just about numbers, it has viewpoints that can contribute to the world because for me everything has a relationship with math, whether it is big or small. And so, reading this book made me realized that mathematics is really universal.