Math does not always come easy to everybody, but too many viewed it as a second language. With all if the different formulas and theorems that need to be memorized it can be a lot to take in, as well as begin to look more like gibberish. I find it sometimes very difficult to apply all the theorems and formulas to the real world. My mind does not always want to think math; because, being an art major I don’t always think I will need math that math is just a bunch of numbers, but in reality it really does apply.In an article I just read an article by David Peat called "Mathematics and the Language of Nature" he explains how math can be found all over, and how it relates to things we see and do everyday. The more I continued to read the article it began to put in to focus how important math really is in the world. For example, in the article David Peat relates math to music. Music is ordered in a way that allows the “unfolding of a great mind,” according to Peat, and that the process of doing a proof in math has the similar unfolding. Also in the article it states math has relations to art; because, with every line that is drawn on a piece of paper has a very complex order. That line could be the length of a shadow, a place holder for something in the picture, or it could show where the edge of the picture will be. Though I have never really noticed this, Peat made it clear that I do this all the time in art.

Throughout the entire article the referral to math as a language is repeated, and I thought that I would never understand math as a language. But after all the examples of how math, music and art are related I was able to view math in the language of the arts. I remember when I was in drawing 1 we had to draw a picture within a given frame size, and if it went out of that frame it was considered opened, or if it was kept within the given size it was considered closed. All this was determined by a few lines. Although I would not consider this a complex order, as Peat does; because, the size was given to me, however it did make me think on how to size things to fit and to make sure that that everything was proportional. Another time I have to use math as a language is when I have to cut matts for my photos. I have to be able to make exact measurements so that I can get the matt to fit my photo. I also realized that math is also in music, but I choose not to see it that way when I am playing my flute. I now Know how long to hold a certain note for, and how to keep with the time signature are all related to math in some form or other.

I realize now I use math in many different artistic ways that I never dreamed I would be doing. Because, it is hard to believe math is so heavily involved is the arts, that sometimes it is hidden and that there is math involved we do not always make the connection right away. I will not lie, and say that this is easy, in fact it is quite difficult. Like I said before math does not always come easy to me. David Peat was able to put into words, what I have failed to realize, about math that it is everywhere in nature, music, and art. Math is not always denoted as a written language of formulas, and theorems, but it can be written in music, drawings, and photos which is more my language. Now I can say that math is a second language to me, slightly different than that of the mathematicians, but it is written in a way that I can understand it.