Ian Stewart’s book-in-review Nature’s Numbers is worth a read for everyone.

Ian Stewart is the author of more than sixty books. In a very lucid style he explains the complicated mathematics found in nature to a layman.

He writes the well-known column ‘Mathematical Recreations’ in the famous magazine ‘Scientific American’.

For non-mathematical readers, the book is a blessing.

The book has nine chapters, namely, The Natural Order, What is Mathematics for, What is Mathematics About, The Constants of Change, From Violins to Videos, Broken Symmetry, The Rhythm of Life, God Plays Dice, Drops, Dynamics and Daisies. . All chapters have very interesting examples.

In chapter one titled, Natural Order, the author explains the amazing facts of patterns found in nature. In almost all flowers, the number of petals is one of the numbers that occurs in the strange sequence 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89.

The great scientist Kepler discovered that if you take the cube of the distance of any planet from the Sun and divide it by the square of its orbital period, you always get the same number. It was the same for all six planets!

Io, Europa and Ganymede are three of Jupiter’s largest satellites. They orbit the planet at, respectively, 1.77. 3.55 and 7.16 days. Each of these numbers is almost exactly double the previous one. There is a significant pattern.

It is interesting to note about the Ship/Dock theorem. That is, if you want to change the word ship to the word wharf by changing one letter at a time and getting a valid word at each stage, you will find that all the solutions have one thing in common: at least one of the intervening words must contain two vowels. . Readers will be motivated to do this puzzle on their own to discover the result.

The rhythm of life is wonderful. In nature everything is rhythmic! There are numerous examples given in the chapter ‘The Rhythm of Life’. The author discusses chaos theory in the chapter ‘Play Dice with God’.

There is a list of books for further reading for those who are interested in knowing more about the secrets of nature.

It is highly recommended that everyone read this book to understand the secrets of nature or rather the secrets of God!