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Showing his informative facet and teacher, Orihuela defended that one can find the same beauty behind a mathematical formula that in a picture, in a ballad or in a poem.
To evoke this 'art' we were delighted with other forms of expression such as Goya's painting, Bernardo López García's ode or Chopin's number one ballad.
Under the title The Language of Science, he found that 'mathematics' can help us to understand every aspect of life, from the cosmos to nanoscience.
To do so, we approach such clarifying examples as the path that travels oxygen to reach the lungs, market fluctuations in the bag, the formation of galaxies;
Or as fun as the option to buy a well-known footballer
All the formulas that explain these phenomena help us to understand how our world works.
A spark of culture with which he conquered the public while entering into the experiences of the most important figures in the history of mathematics.
From Fourier, passing through Gauss and its famous curve that covered the German banknotes;
Or Georg Cantor, a mathematician who died crazy after trying to end the infinite.
Nor did Einstein and his theories fail to fail, such as explaining how pollen specks moved by water, or the role of Alan Turin and John von Neumman, as the practical and theoretical scientist in the creation of computing.
He also told us the curious story behind Kolmogorov's equation, in which Dobln's figure was key.
A Jewish mathematician who participated in World War II with the French side and ended up committing suicide at the age of 25, but not before leaving as a legacy the resolution of this equation.
Although it was not until the year 2000 when the world knew its advance.
In the other part of the world Kiyoshi Ito, Japanese mathematician, obtained the same formula 25 years later, without having had any contact with the French or its results.
The surprising thing is that Ito belonged to the Academy of Sciences of France without knowing that 'under his feet' was deposited the document that kept the great find of this scientist who passed unnoticed by history.
A talk full of anecdotes, familiar and with a predominance of the visual, through which managed to immerse the audience in the beauty of mathematics as the true language of science.
The next conference scheduled by the Scientific Culture Unit in the same cultural space will be on June 6 by José Manuel López Nicolás, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Murcia and creator of the well-known Scientia Dissemination blog.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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