Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land – D27

To finish our day, Bert shared us this 1959 Donald Duck cartoon. It related a lot to Euclid and of course, math in general. It’s a very nice video that explains how math is in everything we do and shows some of the history of this discovery getting back to the Greeks, with Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. It also explains the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden number, φ. After watching this cartoon, we had a dialogue about it. One of the most important things I got from the video is the capacity of explaining very difficult and complex concepts in very simple and straightforward cartoons.  

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Numbers, Numbers Everywhere – Dialogue with Kyle Passarelli D6

What is math? What are numbers? Could math exist without numbers and numbers without math? Is mathematics inherent to the world? I’ve been thinking of these questions since our dialogue on Wednesday and it’s very interesting how humans are capable of adapting the things I believe are inherent in the world into our world. What I mean is that math is always and will always be in the world, whether we see it or not, whether we can apply it or not. Math is there. On the other hand, we have numbers, which we must not confuse with math. Numbers are concepts, symbols, imaginary things created by humans in order to understand mathematics. In other words, numbers are created to adapt math into our life. Numbers are the language of math. So yes, math could exist without numbers, but not the other way. 

We also watched this awesome Fibonacci video and a video about Andrew Wiles and Fermat's Last Theorem!