Mathematics...

How do you find nth root of x
•Step 1: Take square root of x 15 times.
•Step 2: Subtract 1 from step 1
•Step 3: Divide by n
•Step 4: Add 1 to step 3.
•Step 5: Press * and = 15 times on calculator.




However much we learn there is still more beyond our view……This is because unknown things are so large that we can never hope to visit all of its many rooms. As my father always says even if we take ten births, we will not be able to learn or know everything. So leave alone one life.

What we know is like drops in the ocean, what we have to learn is vide like the sea before.

After 10th my parents asked me what next? I said commerce…They asked me why not science? I said all that I have learned in school. I want to learn something new. Now when I look back to what I know in Maths, one of the first subjects that we learn in school, I realize, its just A, B and C..and I do not know D to Z.

While reading about complex numbers, a thought came to my mind. Life is beautiful. We need to keep it simple. It becomes complex, when we introduce more, complex thoughts, imaginary ideas.
Saw Moitrayee with a book ‘Mathematical Sorcery’ revealing the secrets of numbers by Calvin C. Clawson…Actually this book should be read while in school. But cannot understand, why it is not there in the libraries.

We talked about WHAT MATHS IS?? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics, it is always something else. It is as much as art form as is art and music. It deserves to be taught by teachers who love it, just as music teachers love music and art teachers love art. It is interesting, electrifying, astounding.

The relationship between mathematics and music is rather intriguing.
Ø Both are linear- depending on sequence of events, instead of everything happening at once.
Ø Greatest joy is in redoing and sense of anticipation.
Ø Both allow for complexity.
Ø In both there is a sense of perfection.
Ø And there is a potential for related themes.


It is there since the time of ancient Greeks for more than 2500 years. Most other subjects are of recent origin. Maths entertains us, strengthens our mind, enriches us with its aesthetic appeal, and extends our understanding of universe. Mathematics is not a kind of secret knowledge, but by its very nature is democratic. It is a cornerstone of human knowledge.

Mathematics helps us understand truths, which reach beyond even the universe. A hierarchy of universality exists for truths. Some truths have almost no universality. Eg. My own name and address. Other truths enjoy more universality. The truth that water at sea level boils at 100 degree Celsius is particular to our own planet, but not on Jupiter. However Newton’s and Einstein’s law of motion enjoy a much border reach for they work everywhere in the universe.

The best that humans have to offer is indeed Mathematics. Is mathematics a complex game, invented by humans that will disappear completely when we are all gone, or is it part of the very script that writes the universe and is into existence?


We came to the conclusion that Maths was mans desire to quantify things precisely.

HISTORY

There is no written evidence as to what is the origin of maths. It is under continuous evaluation. Maths would have begun with counting. There were no numbers. Writing wasn’t invented until approximately 3100 B.C. It is belived that men then leaved on huntings, as maths is needed even for agriculture. It may be that maths was there, and there was some destruction, which would have destroyed everything. Sumerians full fledged writing dated ways back to ABC 3100 is available.

Earlier there was development of synbolisam to allow us to record and manipulate numbers. It is believed that earlier Sumerians and Babylons used Hexadecimal system, and by 2000 BC, calender of 360 days, divided into 12 months, 30 days,with extra month every 6 yrs was developed. That is why days 24 hrs, hrs. 60 minuts, and 60 seconds, all based on sexagesimal facts.

The Egyptians it is belived to have evolved two sets of symbols to represent numbers.

The first large expansion of number system was the introduction of fractions.

The Babylon’s where the first to find positive roots of quadratic equation, like ax2+bx+c=0.

Multiplication is repeated addition.

When there was developments going on in Sumeria, Babylon and Egypt, simultaneous independent developments where going on in China, India, and Central America.


To Be continued……….









Standardisation:\- To the power of....
million = 10\6
billion = 10\9
trillion = 10\12
quadrillion = 10\15
quintillion = 10\18
hexillion = 10\21
heptillion = 10\24
octillion = 10\27
nonillion = 10\30
decillion = 10\33
unodecillion = 10\36
duodecillion = 10\39