How math brings order to our universe
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Mar 29, 2025
Statistician Talithia Williams on how math is the clearest path to understanding our existence.
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Mathematics allows us to take all of the complexity of the universe and wrap it up
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into an equation or a system of equations that we can then understand and model
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So it's easy to see why people would think of God as a mathematician. creativity and the beauty shows up in the field when you see how math is related to nature and the things that we see around us
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The migration of fish follows a mathematical model. The way that birds swarm in the sky can be modeled mathematically
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If you think about the way that we represent numbers and the way that we're able to
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manipulate equations and systems, it is the true universal language. that we all speak, we all understand
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and we can all use to communicate with each other. This theological connection gives us a basis to think about the intentionality with which the world around us was created That intentionality must have originated somewhere
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Just like nothing around us is random. There's a beautiful mathematical model that we can use to represent it
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It's also the case then that we didn't occur by a happenstance
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and the world didn't form by happenstance. And so there must also be some beautiful entity that created the order that we see
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Mathematics really gives us the language whereby we're able to even make that connection
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and see the beauty of the order and the rationality that we observe in the universe
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And so when we're able to look at a system in nature and see that there's order and purpose
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it then makes you think, well, then there's got to be an order and a purpose for me
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There's got to be some reason that I am here. And so I think that's able to give us meaning and can bring meaning to our lives
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when we realize that, yes, in fact, we are special. There's something special about our presence in this moment
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