Story of Maths Part 3; Reaction Paper
Europe took a mathematical
revolution overpowering the strong foundation of math from the Middle East in
the 17th century. This is the renaissance period where in art
flourished from painting to theater. This paper uncovers the frontiers of space!
An amazing painter by the name of
Piero della Francesca had created a twirl in the world of dimension. His
painting Flagellation of Christ; made a breakthrough in looking at perspectives
in a differently new way. Piero’s 2D creation was able to picture out a 3D
world answering the problem on how to change perspectives. This generated the
beginning of a new way to understand geometry. The documentary often used a
fish eye perspective, I for myself related to it. The effect of having that
perspective can emphasize what is in the frame, like math you need to mend the
details to see things clearly.
One of the places that valued
their mathematicians is France. Decartes had been a sickly child having no mom at
a young age. What I liked about him was the way he meditated; in bed. For him
it is the best place for meditation. About 200 years ago this mathematician was
also a soldier fighting for those who are able to pay him. He’s not much of a
patriot to any organization and religion but one thing’s for sure, he craved on
understanding math. Decartes have been studying math since then, he’s given
credit for the discovery of the Cartesian plain. But his brilliant ideas made
him question that further lead him to the philosophy of mathematics. Personally
philosophy is a significant field. You are able to question yourself for having
so many uncertainties in mind. This led Decartes who is so concerned by his
image to Holland. Mathematical ideas bring pressure if not handled well that’s
why mathematicians are mostly unsociable. Decartes disagree that the sun
revolves around the earth, which made me think that he’s a genius. Also, he had
pictured algebraic equations to geometry by revealing the secrets within
shapes. Truly, formulas go back and forth. That proves that nothing is certain.
The Parisian monk Marhem Mossem
was known for uncovering prime numbers and mathematical communication. He also
used science to prove the existence of God and at the same time publicized
properties of math. I admired Pierre who unveils the fun and games in math. Festival
of mathematics they say. He also invented the modern math theory. Fermat found amazing
patterns in math. He manipulated numbers, their squares and anything crazy that
he can think of to have a pattern. Britain had made a revolution of computation.
Isaac Newton an English mathematician sadly is known for physics and not math.
He performed average in the school with few close friends. He saw the wonders
in mathematics and made a significant approach to math which is calculus; understanding
change motion. Indeed Newton sought for precision in an ever changing world! For
me calculus is exciting, I love calculating related rates in high school
because it is interesting. Gottafried Leibniz might have discovered calculus a
bit later than Newton but still I firmly stand that he should be given credit.
He provided a friendly approach for his discovery differential and integral
calculus. Leibniz notation on calculus captured truth in spirit in math. He
also contributed to mathematical philosophy and was able to make a basic
machine for calculation using binary numbers. Bernoulli found out the calculus
of variation that is used nowadays in technologies. Aside from calculations,
math has been applied in many sciences. Leonhard Euler was also a clever
mathematician for studying optics to astronomy and even theory on music. The prince
of math Carl Gauss is a German who discovered a new patter of prime numbers and
pictured out how Imaginary numbers work. He was not nice though for
disregarding the efforts of a young man who I did not catch the name since the
narrator of the documentary was so fast. Plus he has a British accent. Lastly
another German named Riemann had an exemplary mind for studying the foundations
of geometry which are dimensions and found out the existence of Hyperspace
which is 3D but more of a 4D.
The applications of mathematics are
boundless! Technology comes from scraps and classical math. The prize of doing
mathematics is happiness where you can do it anywhere. This is the infinite
uniqueness of math ∞
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