iSquared magazine articles

iSquared

iSquared is a relatively new quarterly magazine which aims at interesting more students in mathematics.

For more information and for a complete read of the articles, follow the link below

http://www.isquaredmagazine.co.uk

 

Arrows have a point

This is a two part article that offers a glimpse into the language nature of mathematics as well as appreciating how simple mathematics operations can generate patterns. Language is a mode of communication and has a structure, so is mathematics in some way, although mathematics borrows from other languages to be communicated.

It is a shame that most of the pleasures of mathematics is not shared by people outside the scope of the subject. This is partly because most results are abstract and withdrawn from many people. In this paper, we have illustrated how patterns arise from some operations in mathematics. We hope thet the reader will have an appreciation of the beauty of mathematics from the patterns without having to worry of the deep mathematical implications.

Part 1: The language of mathematics

The irony in mathematics is that even mathematicians do not agree on a common definition for maathematics. Some argue that mathematics is a science, an art, a language, and some even have a conviction that it is a combination of all these. In this part we try to discuss the language aspects of mathematics, and introduce the language of quivers.

 

Part 2: Mathematics and Patterns

In this part of the article we show how patterns arise out of some mathematical operations. Mathematically, there is much involved in these operations and the patterns have huge implications, with manu unanswered questions that make a huge sourse of study. The main purpose of this article is to give the reader an indication of how beauty in mathematics can be appreciated, while at the same time the objects of beauty can be a painstaking subject of study.

For more information and for a fcomplete read of the articles, follow the link below

http://www.isquaredmagazine.co.uk/archieve.html

It is important to note that many ideas raised in the two articles were the motivation for developing this web site. We felt that the information we gave in the papers was not exhaustive enough for the reader. Our hope is that readers will find our website as interesting as the articles published in the magazine.

We will appreciate suggestions from our visitors on their experience of the site as well as how we can improve the site to make it more appealing.

 

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