Science doesn't just pop out of nowhere. The first person to ask for evidence on an unproven yet widely held idea applied reason to the physical world. But before that, reason was applied mostly on ideas.

Philosophy might not be as celebrated these days, but in the beginnings of science, it bridged the gap between what we believe and what we know.

Sometimes it takes a leap of creativity to link two seemingly unrelated things together; for instance weaving and programming. Of course in our times both are integrated through computerised automation.

But what if instead of this being the result, the convergence of these two fields are just a recurrence of something that happened almost two centuries ago?

What do we mean by exponential growth? How quickly does your bank balance grow? How quickly does a cup of tea cool, or radium decay? What shape is a washing line and what is the link with a single mysterious number?

​Sometimes a solution can be reduced to a single element.

In our daily lives, there are two things that we can tell: random event, and those due to cause and effect. However some supposedly random things are simply organized in such a way that we can't help by recognising a cause to their non-coincidental effect.

We see it in nature (the Golden Ratio), and constructs by humans (the movement of share prices). But what about in pure numbers? Especially the most mysterious kind: prime numbers.

What is in a name? A lot if you're a biologist. Similarly how we have nuclear families, extended families, and far flung cousins, all species are related and some are closer to each other than others. Taxonomy is a way for us to keep track on where each species belong on the tree of life, it's part of our collective family history, so to speak.