Episode 3 story of maths

Frontiers of Space

     This episode discussed how spaces works in mathematics and how mathematicians discovered the mathematics that describes objects in motion.

     I am interested with first mathematician Marcus introduced, Piero Della Francesca. He is from the northern Italy, an artist and a mathematician. It helps me think that it is not only philosophers can be a mathematician but it can be anybody as long as he has the capacity to do and love math. Piero created an extraordinary output of his art. He represents three dimensional figures into two dimensional surfaces through the used of patterns.

     Marcus then traveled to France and found out more things about Renne Decartes. Decartes decided to become an army until he found some realizations on mathematics and philosophy and decided to leave his hometown and went to Holland. It was indeed a success to Decartes to have his famous ideas. He is the one who united Algebra and Geometry that leads to the creation of Cartesian Coordinate Plane. Another man from the school of Decartes, Marin Mersenne who published one of the works of an unknown amateur, Pierre de Fermat, who end up as a rival of Decartes as the greatest mathematicians in their times. I don't know this man but he works nicely in mathematics. He promotes solving mathematical problems through fun and games. I agree in his idea, it's an effective way to master mathematics. A little fun makes things easy.

     The next mathematician that was discussed was the famous Isaac Newton from Britain. This was my favorite part in the movie because I am one of Newton's fan. He was born in Grantland and was famous in his works in physics. He may not be totally recognized in works in mathematics but he had discovered my most difficult subject at present, the Calculus. He didn't published his works until he heard about his rival, Gottfried Leibniz. Leibniz had the same idea as Newton. He published his discoveries in Calculus and found a big trouble. If I am in that time I would stand for Newton. It was his right to claim his credit for his works. I felt bad for what had happened to Leibniz. He indeed given the credit for the publication of Calculus but then, he still been accused plagiarism.

     The next topic of the movie will talk about the life of Leonard Euler, who created number like e and i and the prince of mathematics, Carl Friedrich Gauss. Gauss at 24 years old invented the modular arithmetic but most of the people don't know him except in Gotingen, where he was known as a local Hero. At his early age, he had lots of discoveries including the pattern of the prime numbers. No wonder why he was known as the Prince of Mathematics and not as the Father of Mathematics, LOL. 

    All this men may have different personalities, origin, and ideas but still they were all the same. They were mathematicians who developed and opens the real world of mathematics..