5.+Math+as+AOK

= MATH & THE MOON! =



About 50.
 * 1. How many moons would fit inside the earth? **


 * 2. What is the escape velocity of the moon **

2.38 km/s, which is equal to 5324 MPH**. **


 * 3. How did the area, circumference, and diameter have been discovered/calculated? **

by using Geophysical techniques.

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=**__Quotes on the Moon__**=


 * "Mathematics is neither physical nor mental, it's social." Reuben Hersh, 1927-**

What this means id that mathematics has no value unless it is shown to people and agreed upon by people.


 * "The useful combinations (in mathematics) are precisely the most beautiful." Henri Poincare, 1854-1912**


 * "Mathematics is the abstract key with turns the lock of the physical universe." John Polkinghorne, 1930 -**


 * "Everything that can be counted does not count. Everything that counts cannot be counted." Albert Einstein, 1879-1955**


 * "The mark of a civilized man is the ability to look at a column of numbers and weep." Berterand Russell, 1872-1970**


 * "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." Paul Erdos, 1913-96**


 * "Mathematics began when it was discovered that a barce of pheasants, and a couple of days have something in common: the number two." Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970**


 * To speak freely, I am convinced that it (mathematics) is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other..." Rene Descaret, 1596-1650**


 * "Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them 'impressions", and if you got a different "impression", so what, cant' we all be brothers?| Jack Handy 1949-**

= = = = =**Math Helps me Misunderstand the World**=

Looking at math as an area of knowing (AOK), it seems to be prominent in the scientific field and the world around it. But reflecting back on the activity we’ve done last class, I don’t think math would be an efficient and easy method to approach our everyday life activities. As previously discussed in class, guiding someone to a location using tangible objects or places to refer to, rather than stating how many meters or kilometers it is away from something, is a much more simple way to approach such things. Personally, I believe that math often makes a learner deviate off topic, and disturbs one’s logic, as it gets them to be focused on the math itself, rather than the actual topic.

Option III: Define mathematics as an area of knowledge

Many people would argue that science would not exist without mathematics, and that many fields and subjects are based on math. Personally, I do believe that math is the ground base to most of, if not all of the scientific fields, and some of the social sciences such as Economics. Mathematics is defined as an abstract science that studies numbers, quantity, and space. To me, mathematics is a system that represents big ideas in life, through the use of numeric systems. It embraces secrets on how our world functions, and all these secrets are often found through patterns. Humans often tend to seek out for patterns in their everyday lives, whether in designing to planning.

To what extent is mathematics a product of human social interaction?

Mathematics is a social interaction tool. It is a Universal language that we all agree upon it. This has brought scientists from all over the world to interact and connect with each, despite cultural differences. A perfect example of math as a social interaction tool is KAUST. KAUST has brought scientists and mathematicians from different spots of the world to share their knowledge and Humans have used math to improve living standards since the old Babylonians, as most discoveries and innovation are based on math; this has led many societies to golden ages.

__Team Examples:__

 - KAUST brings together Scientists from around the world even with a lack of shared language, the symbols and lines of equations on paper with a few keywords is enough to efficiently convey their proofs and discoveries

 - Language has grammar and order of words and sentences, maths has order of operations like brackets and expansion

 - Every language has specific definitions for words, in Maths there are definitions too, like prime numbers and indicies and squared.

 - Maths has conjunctives like, the 3 dots.

 - Languages uses derivatives and root words from other languages, Maths uses Greek and English alphabets: Theta is an angle, R is the gas constant.

 - Every symbol can be translated to any language