19th-20th+Century+Math

19th to 20th Century Math - Things Math Has Done

It has:
 * Become simpler
 * Become more complicated
 * Provides answers
 * Explains how things work
 * Creates understanding
 * Shows how reality can be quantified
 * Reality cannot be completely described by mathematics
 * Math is a model of reality
 * Not all people use math to explain reality (or understand reality using math)
 * Math has created weapons
 * Has shown us that reality is more complicated than our senses would originally lead us to believe
 * Using math to explain reality is more accurate
 * Math is a language

Economist article:

Notes: •	Collection of data is getting increasingly larger. •	Storage space is decreasing as data is increasing, creating a problem. •	Data management is becoming an important concept in the present time. •	1-2 billion of the 6.8 billion people in today’s world use the Internet. •	Amount of information and data (digital) “increases tenfold every five years.” •	Management of information affects several different areas of a person’s life.

What does the article tell us about data in the 21st century? Data is increasing at an incredibly fast rate.

Questions: How does this affect us?

List any thoughts, points of interest, point for discussion The massive amounts of data is interesting to read about. How does this really affect us, though? Is Google the only search engine that constantly changes placement of results based on how many clicks it receives?