DIMACULANGAN, BLESSLY ANNE B.

GEd 102
ChE 1102 Learning Activity 1.2

Guide Question: Synthesis about all the things you learned in nature’s pattern.

Patterns: Mathematics in Beauty of Nature

“Mathematics is the science of patterns; and nature exploits just about every
pattern that there is.”—Ian Stewart

It is not a big wonder to see and know that the beauty of nature unlocks the concept
of mathematics the same way on how the beauty of the discipline starts in nature. With
this regard, I discover that pattern is not just a consistent and recurring structure, form, or
design as it unravels what our naked mind and eyes can see—the underlying
mathematics it possesses within. From patterns visible in the visual organisms such as
repeated series of shapes on cacti, spots and stripes diffused and present in different
animals, the texture exists on surfaces, locomotive and rhythmic motion of animals, flow
of liquids in and out of our body, and default pattern of our own heartbeats to the realm
of Fibonacci in nature seen in flowers, fruits, and vegetables greatly incorporate the
beauty of mathematics. It is also evident that this pattern formation is greatly manifested
through the presence of symmetries in our nature such as reflection, rotation and
translation which create identical figures of both nature and man-made objects and
structures.

Gradually, as we open our eyes and mind to the beauty of nature, we can assess
that Mathematics is the key to unveil various mysteries that appears in our nature starting
from the texture of the smallest specie there is to the scale of the cosmos where spiral
patterns can be seen. In capsulized, explaining nature and Mathematics cannot be
separated nor overpower one another as the beauty of the natural world is interconnected
to the profound mathematical essence of patterns in nature.

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