Pythagoras and patterns

Pythagoras Tree 2 by Rafael Espericueta 

You may recall from your high school math that the Pythagorean Theorem says that the square of the long side of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two shorter sides. It doesn’t really matter if you remember that. The important thing about Pythagoras’ discovery is not the formula itself—it’s the fact that there is a formula.

Pythagoras was the first human to see that there are universal patterns. It is those patterns, those unfailing regularities, that allow us to do everything from calculating the interest on a savings account to sending rockets to the moon.

We may wear different clothes, worship different deities, speak different tongues, and eat different foods, but we are held on earth by the force of gravity which is the same from Albuquerque to Albania.

Pythagoras was the first person to discover those regularities behind the immense variety of everyday experience.

~ J. Michael Orenduff

Pythagoras and patterns

Pythagoras Tree 2 by Rafael Espericueta 

You may recall from your high school math that the Pythagorean Theorem says that the square of the long side of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two shorter sides. It doesn’t really matter if you remember that. The important thing about Pythagoras’ discovery is not the formula itself—it’s the fact that there is a formula.

Pythagoras was the first human to see that there are universal patterns. It is those patterns, those unfailing regularities, that allow us to do everything from calculating the interest on a savings account to sending rockets to the moon.

We may wear different clothes, worship different deities, speak different tongues, and eat different foods, but we are held on earth by the force of gravity which is the same from Albuquerque to Albania.

Pythagoras was the first person to discover those regularities behind the immense variety of everyday experience.

~ J. Michael Orenduff

Quote: Prime numbers

Source: Apuntes Matemáticos

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

~ Mark Haddon

Quote: Prime numbers

Source: Apuntes Matemáticos

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

~ Mark Haddon

Quote: Tapestry of life

The Walthamstow Tapestry by Grayson Perry. Photograph: Linda Nylind

There are days when I think there really is some huge great tapestry of a plan out there and we're all woven into it - this fabulous, complex pattern of life and death, full of recurring motifs and waves of color, and we're each one tiny thread in the weave.

~ Jane Johnson

Quote: Tapestry of life

The Walthamstow Tapestry by Grayson Perry. Photograph: Linda Nylind

There are days when I think there really is some huge great tapestry of a plan out there and we're all woven into it - this fabulous, complex pattern of life and death, full of recurring motifs and waves of color, and we're each one tiny thread in the weave.

~ Jane Johnson