The Universal Language of Math

At the very beginning of our education on math we are all taught through word problems as to how things in our physical world can be represented by equations. Over time we progress into geometry, lines and figures begin to be understood through math and our one dimensional world progresses into two, three and even four dimensions as a time element is introduced. Before long, movement, kinematics, thermodynamics and everything imaginable is realized in math before our eyes. Possibly the most important aspect of modeling is the realization that most everything can be thought of in a set of equations. The beauty of modeling is that getting those equations to play off of one another gives us an incredibly deep understanding of our world. A great example of this is in the modern world of drug development. Every drug has what is called its MoA (Mechanism of Action) which can be represented in a set of equations. In parallel, our bodies have receptive tissues that receive those drugs which can also be represented in a set of equations. Scientists today benefit from mathematical models that allow them to see how exactly the body is expected to react to a drug even before you subject it to cells in a Petri dish or mice. As they study the results of the mice and eventually people in clinical trials against the initial math and its coefficients can be tweaked and equations refined to get an even better representation. One can imagine how this simple example can be scaled against many tissues, organs and systems in the body as we progress to someday having a true digital twin of a human and how we can best effect healthy living.