Patterns

"We live in a universe of patterns where every night the stars move in circles across the sky".

Patterns are basically numerical patterns, geometric patterns, and movement patterns. A mathematician’s thinking is to structure the process of understanding by seeking generalities that cut across things. For 200 years, calculus was in a different atmosphere. It was being used with great success in Physics But the mathematicians were really concerned about what does it really mean. Thus there is a fundamental difference in the way of thinking of a mathematician from a normal human. They tend to ask “why” rather than “how”. “How “related questions are left to domain experts, such as physicists and chemists. Mathematicians concentrate on “why” and that opens a whole set of settings for people to work on how’s. For example, a chicken develops a pattern in its feet, mathematician will be interested in the ways the pattern is formed whereas how the chicken makes the pattern of its feet is a matter of chemistry. Patterns of form and patterns of movement are so widespread and rampant in the nature that it is difficult not to observe even all of them. Ripples in the pond, movement of horses, elephants, mammals, stripes on Zebra, all happen based on such certain patterns. Patterns possess a unique beauty. If one were to study the patterns, it would be the best thing to weight those patterns in our daily life applications. When such a complicated creature like mother nature can work with a pattern, it is certain that pattern would work for a less compound purpose driven application.