How I fell in love with Mathematics?

 How I Fell in Love with Mathematics

As a young student transitioning from primary school to middle school, the most exciting parts of my education were not the classrooms but the laboratories. Two places fascinated me more than anything else: the Physics Lab and the Science Lab.

In the Physics Lab, as a boy who was fascinated by speed and machines, seeing cutaway engines, cylinders, and mechanical components was thrilling. For the first time, I could look inside the machines that moved our world and understand how they worked.

The Science Lab was equally captivating. I still remember a teacher who dared to go beyond the prescribed curriculum. Watching him dissect a frog transformed the laboratory into a window onto an entirely new world. It was more than excitement—it was wonder, curiosity, and a growing realization that there was far more to the world than what appeared on the surface.

When I entered high school, physics became the subject that truly captivated me. Unfortunately, many of my mathematics teachers were so devoted to abstract concepts that they rarely revealed the extraordinary beauty of pure mathematics or its profound connection to understanding the physical world. Fortunately, this gap was later filled by exceptional professors at the Institute of Mathematics of Dr GholanHossein Mosahab, as well as by outstanding mathematicians at Aryamehr University of Technology.

They taught me that mathematics is far more than symbols, formulas, and proofs. It is the language through which we understand the deepest mysteries of the universe.

What fascinated me most during those years was particle physics and the astonishing forces operating within atoms, forces that seem almost unimaginable at the scale of everyday life. Quarks, leptons, and their interactions occupied my thoughts endlessly. How could such an immense universe be governed by phenomena so small and yet so fundamental?

But perhaps nothing captured my imagination more than flight. The boy who loved speed became a teenager fascinated by airplanes. Bernoulli’s principle was not merely an equation to memorize; it was a mystery to be solved. How could a machine weighing many tons lift itself from the ground and soar through the sky like a bird?

Looking back, I realize that my love for mathematics did not begin with mathematics itself. It began with wonder. It began with an overwhelming curiosity about how the world works.

Physics sparked that curiosity, but mathematics gave me the language to understand it.

Perhaps that is why, after many years of teaching, research, and academic leadership, I still carry with me the same sense of wonder that first inspired a young boy to ask, “How does this work?”