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How should an architectural structure look? What are the three main principles that are essential for designing and creating an architectural monument? Hamlet Mikaelyan, Professor at Armenian State Pedagogical University (ASPU), started his meeting with schoolchildren with the above questions.
On December 1, ASPU hosted 7th graders of Primary School N133 named after Garnik Addaryan who had a meeting with the author of the "Algebra" textbook [Hamlet Mikaelyan].
Usefulness, durability and beauty... The professor says these three principles make a monument, and it is not possible to build an architectural structure without mathematics.
Professor Mikaelyan added that it is impossible to build anything solid and useful in our life without accurate calculations. Mathematics also helps make them beautiful - be it a classroom, a family, or a company.
“The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics., and to read that book, you need to know the language of mathematics," the professor cited Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei’s understanding of mathematics adding that there are different definitions of mathematics, but he likes Galilei’s interpretation the most. Hamlet Mikaelyan added that he also used the term "the language of algebra" in his textbook. “We need to know everything around us. Mathematics is the main weapon to know nature. It is difficult to find anything more useful in life than mathematics. However, Galileo did not know that a few centuries later mathematics would become not only a way to know nature, but also a social science.
Professor Mikaelyan advised the teachers present at the meeting to instruct pupils to write an essay entitled "A Day without Mathematics". It will help them [pupils] realize the importance of mathematics in life, which also forms speech culture, reasoning, logic, and clarity.
Hamlet Mikaelyan cited the words of another famous person: mathematics developed based on aesthetic motives and beauty’ and added the desire to find a solution to the problem is also the proof of that.
“Mathematics also teaches that hard work is the key to success," Hamlet Mikaelyan said during the meeting and reminded that the highest value is the Motherland, and its future is built with a good knowledge of mathematics.
Geghetsik Martirosyan, a teacher at Primary School N133, who is also a graduate of ASPU, thanked the professor for the exceptional meeting and confessed that she fell in love with mathematics thanks to Hamet Mikaelyan.
She still listens to the professor with great delight, recalling the years when Prof. Mikaelyan was teaching them.
