Nature's Numbers by Ian Stewart

The book under describe Nature's Numbers by Ian Stewart is worth reading by one and all.

Ian Stewart is the author of over sixty books. In a very lucid style he explains the complicated mathematics that is found in nature to a layman.

He writes the customary 'Mathematical Recreations' column in the illustrious magazine 'Scientific American'.

Nature's Numbers by Ian Stewart

To the non-mathematical readers the book is a boon.

The book has nine chapters namely, The natural order, What mathematics is for, What mathematics is about, The constants of change, From violins to videos, Broken Symmetry, The rhythm of life, Do dice play God, Drops, Dynamics, and Daisies. All the chapters are with very inspiring examples.

In chapter one titled, Natural Order, the author explains the phenomenal facts of patterns that are found in the nature! In nearly all flowers, the amount of petals is one of the numbers that occur in the strange sequence 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89!

The great scientist Kepler found that if you take the cube of the length of any planet from the Sun and divide it by the quadrate of its orbital period, you all the time get the same number. It was the same for all the six planets!

Io, Europa, and Ganymede are three of Jupiter's larger satellites. They orbit the planet in, respectively, 1.77. 3.55, and 7.16 days. Each of these numbers is practically exactly twice the former one. There is a essential pattern.

It is inspiring to note about the Ship/Dock theorem. That is, if you want to convert the word ship into the word dock by changing one letter at a time and getting a valid word at every stage, you will find that all solutions have one thing at common: at least one of the intermediate words must include two vowels. Readers will be motivated to do this puzzle on their own to find out the result.

The rhythm of life is wonderful. In nature everything is rhythmic! There are numerous examples given in the chapter 'The rhythm of life'. The author analyses the chaos system in the chapter 'Do dice play God'.

There is a list of books for additional reading to those who are interested to know more about natures' secrets.

It is highly recommended that all should read this book to understand natures' secrets or rather secrets of God!

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