SYNTHESIS PAPER: THE NATURAL ORDER

Mathematics tell hidden patterns that help us understand the world around
us. Now much more than arithmetic and geometry, mathematics today is a multiple
discipline that settle with measurement, observations, and data from science; with
conjecture, speculation, and proof; and with mathematical models of natural
phenomena, of human behavior, and of social systems.

Ian Stewart states “Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature

exploits just about every pattern that there is.” Mathematics became the key to
unlock the mystery behind the patterns that recur in nature from the smallest
seashell to the leaves and branches of trees inland. Many people became curious
about these naturally occurring patterns. However, before Ian Stewart published
his book and had curiosity about the patterns that occurs in nature there were
already people who tried to unlock the patterns of Nature like Greek Philosophers,
Pythagoras, Theophrastus, Leonardo Da Vinci and Johannes Kepler.

As a feasible matter, mathematics is a science of pattern and order. Its

discipline is not molecules or cells, but numbers, form, algorithms, change, and
chance. As a science of abstract objects, mathematics depend on argumentation
rather than on observation as its exceptional of truth, yet utilize simulation,
observation, and even experimentation as method of discovering truth.

I believe that human written history is curtail in the perception that it has
never introduce a valid and complete scheme of human behavior. It is, if ever, an
example of how religious, political or ideologies, can build a science of history, and
all science, in a world where truth, perceived as a threat to human fellowship. We
have understand through quantum physics that not elements, stuff, object and
matter are of importance, but how we look at them. On the fundamental level, all is
movement and potential, but I do believe this is even true in our everyday reality.

What we give observation to, we increase and strengthen, what we overlook

tends to dissipate not only from our regard, but even physically, in some way or the
other, from our lives. The peculiar role of mathematics in education is a result of
its universal applicability. The outcome of mathematics--theorems and theories--
are both remarkable and functional. The best consequence are also deep and
dignified. Through its theorems, mathematics provide science both a substratum of
truth and a standard of certitude.

In inclusion to theorems and theories, mathematics offers typical modes of

thought which are both versatile and powerful, including abstraction, optimization,
modeling, logical analysis, inference from data, and use of symbols. Involvement
with mathematical modes of thought builds mathematical power--a capacity of
mind of increasing value in this technological age that enables one to read
critically, to identify fallacies, to detect bias, to assess risk, and to suggest
alternatives. Mathematics empowers us to understand better the information-laden
world in which we live.