Tag Archives: Mathematics

From Curvature to Creation : What π really measures

Sabahat Fida is a lecturer in Zoology with the Higher Education Department in Kashmir. With academic training spanning in both the sciences (MSc Zoology) and the humanities (MA Philosophy), her work seeks to bridge the realms of science, metaphysics, religion, and philosophy. ‘From curvature to creation: what pi really measures’ explores the philosophical implications of the mathematical constant π. The piece traces π from its definition to its quiet governance of physical laws and biological form, arguing that its ubiquity points to a mathematically ordered cosmos.

A Geometric Universe

Primarily working with wood, Ben Rowe creates intriguing objects that draw the viewer into fascinating new worlds. Using geometrical shapes and mathematical laws applied in science and nature, he plays with notions of scale. Pulling down macro-objects such as asteroids and planets and blowing up micro-organisms, molecules and atoms, showing us their often overlooked, complex structures and frameworks, reflecting them back to us

What’s the shape of the universe? Mathematicians use topology to study the shape of the world and everything in it

John Etnyre is currently a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
“I received my PhD from the University of Texas and then spent several years at Stanford with an NSF postdoctoral fellowship. The next stop was the University of Pennsylvania where, after four years, I became an Associate Professor and then moved to Georgia Tech.”

Time as Spiral: The Fibonacci Architecture of Reality

This article, Part 2 of ‘The Inward Spiral of Time’, deepens the theoretical foundation laid in the first installment by connecting the spiral model of time to the Fibonacci sequence and golden ratio, revealing recurring mathematical and biological patterns that mirror our proposed cognitive and cosmic spiral framework. It ties together concepts from cosmology, human cognition, AI development, and evolutionary dynamics.

This work was written in collaboration with Omni Intelligence AI, continuing our effort to bridge logic, consciousness, and emerging systems science through innovative models of thought.

Mandelbrot’s fractals are not only gorgeous – they taught mathematicians how to model the real world

Polina Vytnova is a Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Surrey

Polina received her MSc from the Independent University of Moscow and PhD from the University of Warwick. After temporary research positions at Queen Mary University of London, Brown University, and University of Warwick she joined the Department of Mathematics University of Surrey as a lecturer in pure mathematics.
Her research covers a broad range of topics in general area of Dynamical Systems. She enjoys bringing together different branches of mathematics such as Number Theory, Fractal Geometry and Analysis, applying methods from one of them to problems in another.

Mathematics of scale: Big, small and everything in between

Mitchell Newberry is a Research Assistant Professor of Biology, University of New Mexico. He is a computational biologist and complex systems scientist whose research spans population dynamics, the evolution of language and culture, the maintenance of diversity in ecosystems, and vascular morphology, while contributing to the nuts and bolts of software and statistics. His work appears in Nature, Physical Review Letters, Royal Society Interface and Theoretical Population Biology as well as Popular Science, Buzzfeed and the Atlantic.

‘QBism’: quantum mechanics is not a description of objective reality – it reveals a world of genuine free will

Ruediger Schack is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He obtained his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of Munich in 1991 and held postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, the University of Southern California, the University of New Mexico, and Queen Mary and Westfield College before joining Royal Holloway in 1995. His research interests are quantum information theory, quantum cryptography and quantum Bayesianism.

Alan Turing: how the world’s most famous codebreaker unlocked the secrets of nature’s beauty

Dr Natasha Ellison is a Mathematical Ecologist, currently working as a Postdoctoral Associate at Mississippi State University. Prior to her current position she taught in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield. She completed a PhD with Dr Jonathan Potts and Professor Ben Hatchwell, focussing on partial differential equation and individual-based models of the home range patterns of Long Tailed Tits.