science of patterns

[AntonioLao]

As Keith Devlin would imply in his award winning book “The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible” the search for patterns in nature is the responsibility of the mathematicians. In turn these groups of specialists are raised to the higher status of being called physicists, chemists, biologists, physiologists, economists, geologists, paleontologists, astronomers, meteorologists, cosmologists, neurologists, computer scientists, and many other specialized fields of fundamental investigations. Their efforts parallel those of the applied industrialists: engineers, architects, physicians, psychologists, radiologists, dentists, nutritionists, and many other occupations of technologists. What one group discovers the other applies. To be a member of both groups of theory and practice would require a lifetime of search and research, of success and failure, of joy and sorrow. But this chosen life will never be boring. Hopes and wishes will always be around the corners. But wariness of the unknown and surprises will also be parts of the endeavors. The common denominators are the patterns themselves, those that are hidden and waiting to be discovered and those that are plainly in sight waiting to be recognized. All it takes is simply to look for them. The comparisons between distinct patterns of nature require numerical calculations and only then do it calls for a defined number system of measurement. Nevertheless, patterns of numbers exist within each system. These provide the possibilities of differentiation between systems for their applicability in real life problems. In the computer sciences both the binary system and the hexadecimal system are utilized while day to day accounting the decimal system is preferred. However, in the group symmetry of quantum mechanics the calculation power of complex, imaginary, and real matrices are the chosen efficient patterns. Keith Devlin’s precise definition of mathematics is that of the one and only science of patterns. http://www.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/

[Lloyd Gillespie]

Thanks for the links Antonio. I especially liked this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pRM4v0O29o rrr

As Keith Devlin would imply in his award winning book “The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible” the search for patterns in nature is the responsibility of the mathematicians. In turn these groups of specialists are raised to the higher status of being called physicists, chemists, biologists, physiologists, economists, geologists, paleontologists, astronomers, meteorologists, cosmologists, neurologists, computer scientists, and many other specialized fields of fundamental investigations. Their efforts parallel those of the applied industrialists: engineers, architects, physicians, psychologists, radiologists, dentists, nutritionists, and many other occupations of technologists. What one group discovers the other applies. To be a member of both groups of theory and practice would require a lifetime of search and research, of success and failure, of joy and sorrow. But this chosen life will never be boring. Hopes and wishes will always be around the corners. But wariness of the unknown and surprises will also be parts of the endeavors. The common denominators are the patterns themselves, those that are hidden and waiting to be discovered and those that are plainly in sight waiting to be recognized. All it takes is simply to look for them. The comparisons between distinct patterns of nature require numerical calculations and only then do it calls for a defined number system of measurement. Nevertheless, patterns of numbers exist within each system. These provide the possibilities of differentiation between systems for their applicability in real life problems. In the computer sciences both the binary system and the hexadecimal system are utilized while day to day accounting the decimal system is preferred. However, in the group symmetry of quantum mechanics the calculation power of complex, imaginary, and real matrices are the chosen efficient patterns. Keith Devlin’s precise definition of mathematics is that of the one and only science of patterns. http://www.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/

[AntonioLao]

Thanks for the link, Lloyd. But somehow I can't access that link from this public library.