The Use of Mathematical Concepts to Symbolize Irrationality in We Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We is a dystopian epistolary novel about an engineer, D-503, and his experiences up until the time the Integral is finished being built. The Integral is a spacecraft that will be used to travel to other planets and spread the philosophy of OneState, which is the perfect society that D-503 lives in that runs solely on logic and mathematics. Because D-503 lives in this logical world, he depends on math for a rational
Huffington Post entitled ‘The Infinity Inside.’ The compelling title gave way to an even more intriguing body, which referred to infinity not in mathematical terms but as an abstract principle that governs the universe. This encounter instigated a profound curiosity in me, spurring me to investigate the concept of infinity further; after searching “how large is infinity” on the Internet, I discovered a TedEd video exploring the central question ‘How Big is Infinity?’ This video introduced me to the
Georg Cantor I. Georg Cantor Georg Cantor founded set theory and introduced the concept of infinite numbers with his discovery of cardinal numbers. He also advanced the study of trigonometric series and was the first to prove the nondenumerability of the real numbers. Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on March 3, 1845. His family stayed in Russia for eleven years until the father's sickly health forced them to move to the more acceptable environment of Frankfurt
The Genius of M.C. Escher Mathematics is the central ingredient in many artworks. While notions of infinity and parallel lines brought “perspective” to the artistic realm in creating realistic representations of depth and dimension, mathematics has influenced art in a more definite way – by actually becoming art. The introduction of fractal geometry and tessellations as creative works spawned the creation of new and innovative genres of art, which can be exemplified through the works of M
My Mathematics Exploration will investigate the concept of infinity cardinal numbers, where I will investigate Hilbert’s paradox of the Grand Hotel. In this Mathematical Exploration, I will incorporate different cases and explain these cases so as to show demonstrate the concept of infinity. My interest in the concept of infinity came about through minimal explanation and attention given to infinity when it was taught in secondary school, where I was always led to believe it meant the largest possible
following statement: I am infinity. This holds true from a bio-mathematical approach and a socio-cultural perspective, as well as in a metaphorical sense and in relationship to time. However, an element of concern with this definition is, that as a model answer to all, it would defeat a sense of uniqueness sought by individuals who try to distinguish themselves from their surroundings using the aforementioned question. Specifically, if I am infinity, and You are infinity (in the instance when you
Aristotle supported the idea of “potential infinity” but refuted the idea of “actual infinity”. He defined potential infinity by saying if you are counting natural numbers, logic would tell us that we can always add one to the previous number and that can potentially go on forever. He also said that we could potentially use this logic in geometry if we imagined a line that extended beyond both points with no recognizable end. On the contrary, actual infinity seems paradoxical because even if we had
acknowledged. Their pursuit of knowledge is what contributed to the concept of infinity and knowable or unknowable in mathematics. However, their love for a matrix of pure mathematics and how it is used to explain the nature of science later drove them all to folly and ultimately suicide. This paper gives a review of the dangerous knowledge documentary. The narrator opens the documentary
tools to physically show the mathematical nature of the infinite, philosophers speculated on what happens when a space was divided into infinite parts. Parmenides and Zeno created theories, and paradoxes to prove that infinite divisibility was so significant that the universe is in a constant, unchanging state, and using that to show that motion cannot exist. Aristotle and other philosophers critiqued these ideas by defining various grammatical forms of the term infinity, in order to clarify what the
patterns will emerge. Fourth, if you can discover these patterns, you can find the key to understanding the apparent chaos, and you can predict everything. What is your opinion of Max’s core beliefs? Do they really apply to the universe? Could a mathematical pattern be something like the DNA if the universe? Max’s beliefs cannot be valid in terms of defining the universe. If mathematics would be able to create patterns that can help to understand the universe it would have helped solve