BY MARY O'CONNOR
“The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”
GH Hardy “ A Mathemetician’s Apology”
Patterns. Beautiful patterns.
Breath in Breath out.
Heart pulsing heart beating
Three meals a day
A day a night
Often, but not always binary
Pattern of a life death life death
Seasons, The moon, menstruation, gestation, our gestation not our mother’s ours.
7 days a week. we have symmetry and asymmetry. We have both.
In a Dalcroze Eurhythmics lesson recently, where we learn many things, one is to see that what happens in music happens in life in the world around us, we discussed the chaos but order of conversations. Of weather where there is pattern and chaos in the pattern but rain will fall, sun will shine, words will be spoken, speak, listen, respond.
Patterns of coincidence, patterns of clusters of events. We are pattern makers, weavers, interpreters, pattern sorters. We circle towards and away. We spiral. Twist turn.