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All three of these images show the designed environment, and more specifically they show skyscrapers located throughout the world. All of these were designed by talented architects and all of these architects had to use mathmatics in almost every aspect of the design process. However my focus is not on the mathmatics used to design the buildings, but instead it is the mathmatics that keeps theses buildings up. This is newtonian mathematics. This is more or less gravity and the principles that govern all bodies in earth and space. Theses mathematics also forced the designer to design to withstand the forces of gravity. If the architects would not have compensated for gravity, these buildings would most likely not be standing anymore and may have never even been built. WIthout Newtonian mathmatics we would most likely not have skyscrapers because we would not know how to make these buildings stand. That means we would not have had buildings like the World Trade Center, and we would not have buildings like the Empire State Building, Petronas Towers, and the upcoming Freedom Tower. Fortunately, we do know about these mathematics and we are able to build these beautiful buildings.