Jack Purcell
Kurazban
A2A
6 March 2017
Life’s base elements are tiny little minuscule objects floating around and interacting with other little objects. The interaction between these objects create organic matter and compounds with the element Carbon as a main ingredient. Science and Math go hand-in-hand, as these base building blocks are expressed as mathematical equations; meaning that math to a certain degree, is necessary for life itself to exist. Science uses variables and mathematical equations as much as mathematicians do, if not more. Everything Scientists do, EVERYTHING has math in it, or can be expressed by math; from measuring a beaker to burning magnesium.
Organics are special compounds that use carbon and oxygen with a whole bunch of other elements and mixtures to generate natural things found everywhere. The earth has many soils covering its surface, all with the proper amount of organic nutrients to support plant life. These soils deliver basic sugars, proteins and water to the plants root systems and power it. They make it possible to sustain the plants cells and give it energy to preform photosynthesis. These tiny little chemical formulas are presented in a mathematical equation explaining the chemicals, what elements are used, how much of the elements are there, and what the change into when they react with one another they react with one another. Combinations of silicon, oxygen, nitrogen and many others make a simple mixture of elements. In that equation there might be exponents which tell the scientist how much of one chemical there is, and coefficients that show how many compounds there are. The chemical recipes are basic ingredients for every physical thing in existence, including you. The human body is 99 percent oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorous. In an almost miniscule amount the human body carriespotassium,sulfur,sodium,chlorine, andmagnesium, but these are all the elements that make us up. It seems unbelievable that your body is made up of only 11 elements, but they all work with each other, and combine into tissue, blood, and bone. All life requires chemistry to exist, and by association that means math as well.
Math really is in everything, but it goes deeper than you might realize. Science is a broad umbrella term for “a systematically organized body of knowledge on a particular subject.” Science utilizes math in order to come up with experiments, measure data, and express ideas that are more than just prevalent to life, but life itself. Sequences and pulses of brain activity and functions of nerve receptors in the brain keep our heart pumping, lungs breathing are all electronic functions on par with today’s super computers. Math controls the amount of oxygen that enters our lungs, how much reaches our blood, how fast our blood travels, and how much oxygen is delivered to the muscles used to write this project. The glucose mixing into our digestive track to make protein is all math! Bodily functions are all crazy mathematical equations anywhere from simple chemical combinations, to extensive nerve signals traveling every half second through the brain.
Math’s importance is taken for granted most of the time, it’s a difficult, tedious, and relatively boring skill to learn in comparison to science. But math is a fundamental piece of knowledge that’s necessary to know, and at the very least just basic arithmetic for everyday life.Average people should know the amount of math that goes into life, and how its laws dictate how we live. We base our lives around how fast our cars move, when we sleep, and how we eat. It’s incredible there isn’t an international math holiday already because it is the only other thing besides science that controls how we live.