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Here at 3GA Marine Ltd., as an engineering and technical services company, we are particularly interested in how 3 is viewed in the domain of science and technology.

The foundation of science is mathematics. Mathematics is a mysterious thing; it works predictably, every time. Those who developed geometry, algebra, and other staples of mathematics, were aware that its source was hidden in mystery. They were impressed by the beauty of the structural order they were discovering, and regarded mathematics as sacred knowledge.

Pythagoras (c. 580–500 B.C.), who developed a large, long-lasting school around mathematics, is reputed to have said: "Number is the within of all things." At his academy, Plato required the study of mathematics as a prerequisite to philosopheme, a study that was synonymous with "the love of wisdom." Plato said: "Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent."

To the Greek philosophers, one and two were not considered to actually be numbers. Rather, they were the parents of all other numbers. They surmised that creation is involved when a pair of distinct but equal opposites unites to produce a third, new thing. Modern scientists know this as the law of attraction and repulsion — from the basic polarity, light, energy, and all matter results.

In more recent times the number 3 was again affirmed as the first number, it being the smallest integer where n² is greater than 2n and is shown to be the ancestor of all numbers simply because every number is the sum of, at most, 3 triangular numbers.

Carl Jung said: "Every tension of opposites culminates in a release, out of which comes a 'third.' In the third, the tension is resolved and the lost unity is restored."

As a structure, the triangle and its three-dimensional brother, the pyramid, are the structurally strongest shapes. Unlike any other shape, the three sides of a triangle resolve opposite tensions into one solid, stable whole needing no outside support. Leonardo da Vinci said: "An arch is two weaknesses which together make a strength."

We do things as engineers by organising our actions into a project — a finite set of actions that have a beginning, a middle, and an end. As project managers we look to 3 attributes to describe a project's form: scope, schedule, and budget. The harmonious balance of these attributes leads to the client's satisfaction.