Exploratory Essay

The world around us is full of mathematical parallels as the Nova episode projects, and people have used math to figure out what is going on in the world around them in hundreds of different situations. For example, when an apple supposedly fell on Sir Isaac Newton’s head, he was overcome by the sheer thought of gravity and immediately put himself to work to discover why. This gave way for the equation that perfectly describes what gravity is in a mathematical from. The equation is still widely known and used to this day, and it might not be, or at least probably not the same, if Sir Isaac Newton wasn’t clonked on the head with an apple. By getting hit on the head with a fruit Newton was able to figure out how gravity works. It’s like the old

Of course, at this point it is really just a matter of opinion, because we still haven’t discovered what math really is. Some people say that we invented it, some say we discovered it. Some people even say that the concept of math is wired into our brains, and the more gifted students were born with the knowledge and understanding. There is some evidence of that, due to MRIs and CT scans that can reveal how much blood is going through your head and your brain activity while solving math problems. There is confirmation that kids who are whizzes at math have much more blood flowing through their brains compared to the kids who are about averages. Math is a concept that you just pick up easily or something you struggle at. If math were wired into our brains it would make a lot more sense than if it were part of the universe already. There is no evidence whatsoever of math being an object that you can touch, or something that you breath in each time you inhale. We, as humans, can sense how what has more if we looked at two different screens, so can lemurs and monkeys, and that is because it is built into us and all living objects. We are able to find the Fibonacci Code in flowers, pinecones, and countless other things in nature. We are built to find these numbers in everyday objects. That is because it is a part of