Wednesday, April 28, 2010

How does math adds to the beauty of the things that exist in the world?

I want to know because I'm doing an assignment in math online.How does math adds to the beauty of the things that exist in the world?
For the most part, and for most people (including some mathematicians, it seems) Maths purely adds to the understanding of beauty.





We can calculate the width of the eyes, height of eye line compared to the face, position of the arch of an eyebrow and thus construct a more beautiful face.





We can understand the reflected and radial symmetries in the world around us.





We can ';see'; and study the fractal intricacies of nature.





But for some people, maths adds a beauty all of its own.





The Mandelbrot set and the pretty colours of fractals have already been pointed out above.





There is a certain beauty and elegance inherent in the mathematics itself.





Ask a university level group of mathematicians to prove Pythagoras' theorem and you will get a bunch of different answers. Most will be the same and mundane. Some will be messy and meandering. A few will be elegant - perhaps even beautiful - with logic, numbers and patterns all coming together to follow a path of logic to its conclusion.





There is the same beauty in maths that there can be in a pretty checkmate in a chess game, an elegant one-two-three combination in the boxing ring, the golf shot that miraculously retrieves a dodgy position, a slick fake - in - slam dunk in basketball ... it's one of those things that if you have an appreciation for it you can say it goes beyond being technically good - it's beautiful.





Maths is a way of communication. Some people would go so far as to call it a language. As with all other languages it is possible to express something in an ugly or crude way. It is possible to express something in a beautiful way. But this sort of beauty is about how a person relates to the concepts or sounds or images involved.





Maths adds to the beauty of the things that exist in the world for those who can see it. Without it, we wouldn't even have the concept of adding to the beauty.How does math adds to the beauty of the things that exist in the world?
I'm a mathematician, and I agree with Smile. mathematics can describe beauty, but never adds to or takes away from it.
Check out this site for symmetry. Math has a lot to do with symmetry.





http://face-and-emotion.com/dataface/facets/attractiveness.jsp
it doesn't
dude... all you need to know is how to do the basic that would involve weight, money, and distances, tension is nice to know but math is rather useless
Mathematics is the same in every country. - Each calculation equals a specific answer wherever you go and you get the same answer wherever you go. This makes it beautiful because you don't have to learn new calculations, just the numbers of the language.
fractals are pretty. Go to google images and type in fractals. Plus, it is seen a lot throughout the environment and the world. Fractals are used in faux mountian designing (see wikipedia), some flowers have designs of fractals, and animals even. There is a book titled ';Analytical and Physical Chemistry of Environmental Systems'; about the importance/use of fractals in the environment. check it out.
Math exemplifies the beauty of the mind.

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