Micah Elaine M.

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A. Movie Review

Nova Science: A new discovery of the great Math Mystery Documentary

Viewers are taken on a mathematical mystery tour with the useful resource of the
use of NOVA, a provocative exploration of math's outstanding power across the
centuries. We found out math's signature withinside the swirl of a nautilus shell,
the whirlpool of a galaxy, and the spiral withinside the center of a sunflower. Math
has been increasingly important, from the first wireless radio transmissions
through the successful landing of rovers on Mars. But where does math get its
power? Is math invented by humans, or is it the language of the universe?
Whether we know that we're good with numbers or not, everyone used math in
our everyday lives. The Great Math Mystery sheds fascinating light on how math
works in our brains and ponders the very last mystery of why it surely works so
well even as interpreting the universe.

But where does math come from, and why does it work so well to explain our
physical world? Is it humankind’s smart trick or the deeply embedded language
of the universe?

Mathematics is a very deep and curiously strong force that underpins

civilization's spectacular advances and the technological wonders of the modern
era. People continue to be interested in the history of mathematics and how it
explains our physical world, nevertheless. In "The Great Math Mystery," NOVA
and the best group of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers in the world
undertake a math-making tour of mystery. It is a provocative investigation of the
incredible force of mathematics as it developed through the centuries, with a
fundamental question: is mathematics an invention or a discovery?

Nature is made out of numbers, according to astrophysicist and "Is God a

Mathematician?" author Mario Livio. These numbers are what we called the
"Fibonacci Sequence". It is a set of numbers created by mathematicians in the
13th century and displayed in petal counts, particularly on daisies. This statement
was then supported by Christophe Gole of Smith College, who says that
numbers also occur in botany. Similar to the sunflower, the spiral of the bottom of
a pinecone, either clockwise or counterclockwise, results in a number that
belongs to the Fibonacci sequence.

In another segment, he discusses the "Pi" formula, which predicts the colors that
should occur in a rainbow and the pitch of middle C on a piano. It can also be
seen in apples, in how cells develop into spheres, or in the brightness of a
supernova. In addition, a physicist named Max Tegmark from MIP and author of
"Our Mathematical Universe", shares his opinion about the similarities of our
world to a video game. According to him, the program of the game comes from a
mathematical rule that is similar to the physical world in which we live. He even
uses the Fundamental Law of Physics to support his claim that everything in this
world is made up of mathematical equations.

It seems that math was invented by humans, but animals have this concept of
math, but it is not really that significant compared to how humans utilize it.
Patterns have been a common topic in the video; they somehow relate to
whether nature is really mathematical or to the concept "where did math
originate?" However, it was said that math existed even before the first Homo
sapiens, therefore it stood to reason that math existed, alongside nature, or if not
with nature, but it existed alongside with time.

Even though I am well aware that mathematics is a universal language, the

phrase "numbers greatly describe the universe, but it doesn't seem to be about
the universe" made me rethink my ideology on math. It explains how phenomena
happen, just like in physics, by mentioning things like trajectory and more, but it
doesn't fully explain what the universe really is. I believe, too, that everybody can
understand math, with proper conditions. Math is simple, and it really seems to
have been discovered, not invented.