The third episode of mathematics
talked about the mathematical ideas during the 19th and 20th
century. It brought us to Europe where a lot of mathematical concepts were
introduced. In this episode, another side of mathematics was shown. It showed a
development of mathematics which gave us new outlook about mathematics.
In the first part, Piero was
introduced. Piero Della Francesca was an Italian painted. It was said that he truly
understood mathematics since he was also a mathematician. He was amazing
because even in the arts, he was able to incorporate mathematics in it. He was
able to apply mathematics in every stroke of the brush he makes to generate a
3D perspective in a 2D space—very impressive.
Rene Descartes was also mentioned in the movie. He was
very famous because of his Cartesian coordinate plane. He was able to make a
connection between algebra and geometry by formulating equations used in curved
lines. Pierre Fermat was also in the movie where he looked at the properties of
prime numbers which are surprising.
Pierre de Fermat was also discussed and his famous the
last theorem where its proof puzzled mathematicians for over 350 years. His theory
on prime numbers states that if you have a prime number which you divided by
four leaves remainder one then you can rewrite this as two square numbers added
together provided it has remainder one if divided by four. It was also weird to
hear that there really are people who has math as their hobby. Also, I agree on
the part where Marcus
said that in mathematics, you don’t need a laboratory or a library. You just
have to look at the world around you. Every little bit of it has mathematics
involved.
The very famous
Isaac Newton was next, I was a bit confused as first because just like the
people interviewed, I could only remember Newton’s contributions in physics.
But he made a very remarkable discovery in mathematics—calculus. Even though it
has calculus made students’ life harder, calculus allowed us to determine the exact
speed and precise distance at any moment in time. But he did not publish his
work because of this, calculus was heard from another person—Gottfried Leibnitz.
This episode made me realize how
smart humans are. To be able to establish these relationships is not easy. I
was thinking that I won’t be able to discover something today and get a street
named after me since almost all have been discovered by these intelligent
minds. But I think there are still things and ideas which are to be discovered
because discovery and knowledge has no limit or boundary.
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