Essays on Mathematics in Everyday Life

Danica Mckellar once said, “Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.” Math started out quite easy, 1+1=2, 2+2=4, how hard could that be, right? Wrong. Math went from just numbers and simple equations to numbers with letters and...

Quoting from a famous mathematician, Arthur Benjamin once said, “Mathematics is the science of patterns, it teaches us how to think logically, critically and creatively. ” I agree that the math we learnt in school today are not interesting enough. We have students asking, “What’s...

The Fibonacci Sequence is a unique and storied sequence of integers with diverse applications. Originally discovered in ancient India, the sequence has left its mark in history for over 2000 years. The first two elements of the sequence are defined explicitly as 1. Following these...

Have you ever looked at a snowflake and zoomed into it, and you saw that it was had the same pattern as before you zoomed in, and you wondered why that happened? This is due to the mathematical term called fractal patterns. Fractals come in...

Maths is clichéd in science, it is the essence of nature, the kernel of global finance, and it is certainly the core of our earthly world. I simply find using equations to notate everything we want to know about enlightening. Art is ever changing and...

I love the unarguable nature of mathematics, and how that, once proven, a mathematical truth is true forever. It fascinates me how most of the maths I am studying is hundreds or even thousands of years old, and still just as relevant and challenging. This...

In humanity’s transition to the present period, mathematics was one the catalysts that brought in the modern world view. Indeed, after reading ‘Seventeen Equations that Changed the World’ by Ian Stewart, I have learned how mathematics has greatly changed the way in which the world...

The branch of mathematics that deals with the finding and properties of derivatives and integrals of functions, by methods originally based on the summation of infinitesimal differences. This is the typical definition you will find on Google. After reading this definition you might forget the...

Mathematics is used in the everyday life for simple things be it going shopping and calculating what is the best price for you or even how to tell the time. Reading “Fermat’s Last Theorem” by Simon Singh, emphasised the challenge and determination that mathematics brings....

My curiosity with mathematics has led me to read about the subject widely. In doing so, I have gained insight into how mathematics helped catalyse the transition from the old to modern world view. After reading, among others, ‘Seventeen Equations that Changed the World’ by...