Math+as+AOK

Math as an AOK

Math and Science

15/2/2011

//- **Some major advances in physics, for example, discoveries of elementary particles, have come about through arguments involving the beauty, elegance or symmetry of the underlying mathematics. What does this tell us about the relationship between the natural sciences, mathematics and the natural world?**//

In this world, everything is based on mathematics and sciences; in fact everything is math and science. Any shape in the world has its own maths; everything can be measured by math, and everything contains the maths that is used to make it or analyze it. At the same time, every object has its own science, physically, chemically or even biologically. Everything relays on those areas of knowing, and they are the most frequently used to know anything.

Science is an area of knowing that studies objects in different ways to make them easier to understand, and faster and less complicated to make. It studies objects, tests them and analyzes them by making different experiments in different ways of knowing and different types of examinations. Scientists usually create theories and assume knowledge, and then prove them by examinations and tests. Research is the way used to test and evaluate objects to obtain knowledge, to prove theories and assumptions, and to attain success in science. Facts can be changed through time, due to the current changes that are happening to the world, and due to that science is not a strong area of knowing, because facts can be changed and removed, or can be revised.

A good and known example for this is that scientists in the past put a theory that earth is the centre of the universe, and the sun and the other planets are circling around it. And this theory became a fact and everyone believed it, because the Catholic Church approved it. After years, Galileo came and denied that theory, and put the sun as the centre of the universe. But he was threatened by the church and was not taken into account. After he died, many scientists came and proved his theory, and then the church approved it as a fact.

Math is an area used to basically measure things and shapes to be able to make them again, or to help understanding them if needed. Math is not usually needed for everything, because in different situations it doesn’t help understanding objects and shapes, it just makes them misunderstood. Though, math is very important for a lot of measures and ways to know things and understand them. As in science, mathematicians also use theories and assumptions, but the difference is that in math, if a fact were achieved, it can’t be changed unless it doesn’t work at the time it was an assumption. In another words, math is a strong area of knowing that can’t be changed easily as science can be, although science is not that easy to change.

Examples for that are a lot. Pythagoras theory is the best example, because it hasn’t been denied at anytime, though it’s more than 2000 years old. Another example is the quadratic equation, the trigonometric equations, and the geometric facts. Many theories has been made on these areas of math, but were denied at the time they were assumed. There is no fact in the history of math that has been assumed and approved, then after time it has been denied, all because math is a strong and straight area of knowing.