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Use of mathematics in thought process and decision making.

 What if I tell you that you can improve your decision-making process easier using mathematics? Not only that, you can radically improve your thought process and articulate complex dichotomous notions with the help of numbers. You may have heard the use of mathematics in daily life. You may have used numbers to count, measure, label, order, or even code. Without even consciously realizing it, many people apply mathematical concepts in their daily life. The use of arithmetic in monetary transactions is probably the most popular use of mathematics for most people. Besides that, people use mathematics in cooking, shopping, games, designing, and even dieting. While most of you might have known these uses, what you might not know is that mathematics can be used to fundamentally organize our thoughts. Whenever I think about complex topics I think in terms of numbers. Take an example of the most controversial and hyped discipline of our society—Politics. Personally, I have fluctuated ...

THE PASCAL'S TRIANGLE

  - GUNJAN KUMAR SAH

The tale of two irrational numbers.

Remembering Katherine G. Johnson : Mother, Mathematician, and a Pioneer for Space Exploration

Many people spend decades writing about an important figure, who has impacted not the life of a single person but an entire race. Writing about this important of a person is really tiresome and it takes sometime to process the fact that one has been endowed with this amazing opportunity.      For me, It all began with a simple google search of Katherine Johnson's name.   Portrait of Katherine Johnson via. NASA   I like to view this as a simple google search that changed the way I perceived the world of Mathematics. An African-American lady who was rejected the first time she applied to NACA ( National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which was later changed to NASA ) changed the way I view Mathematics.      Katherine Johnson was simply put an extraordinaire. She was an amazing Mathematician who helped NASA lay it's foundations for Space Travel and also is an inspiration to many and one of the very few awardee of Presidential Medal of Freedom ( ...