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- Title
Motivation towards learning mathematics:.
- Authors
Bhakat, Sandeep Kumar
- Abstract
Learning mathematics is the art of systematic planning of acquiring knowledge. Before you start learning mathematics, you must know what particular part you are going to learn. What is your primary information about that part? The way in which you are trying to learn mathematics is most important. Solving mathematical exercises is not complete learning of mathematics. If you do not learn mathematics properly at basic or primary level, then you lost interest and charm in this subject. For proper learning of mathematics, in fact, nobody can confidently make any the best way out. In this paper let us try and hope something good for the learners. Some beautiful mathematical facts: History of numerals coming from India: It is now universally accepted that our decimal numbers derive from forms, which were invented in India and transmitted via Arab culture to Europe, undergoing a number of changes on the way. We also know that several different ways of writing numbers evolved in India before it became possible for existing decimal numerals to be marred with the place-value principle of the Babylonians to give birth to the system which eventually became the one which we use today. Contrast between Greek and Hindu Mathematics There are many differences between the Greek and the Hindu mathematics. In the first place, the Hindus who worked in mathematics regarded themselves primarily as astronomers. Hindu mathematics remained largely a handmaiden to astronomy. With the Greeks, mathematics attained an independent existence and was studied for it owns sake. Hindu mathematics is largely empirical, with proofs or derivations seldom offered; an outstanding characteristic of Greek mathematics is its insistence on rigorous demonstration. Hindu mathematics is of very uneven quality, good and poor mathematics often appearing side by side; the Greeks seemed to have an instinct that led them to distinguish well from poor quality. Some of the contrasts between Greek and Hindu mathematics is perpetuated today in the differences between many of our elementary geometry and algebra textbooks, because the former are deductive and the latter are often collections of rules. Conclusion: In its final form the Hindu system of writing numerals is fundamentally different from that of the Egyptians, the Ancient Greeks and the Romans. The Hindus have special symbols for the individual numbers from one to nine, whose rank are indicated by their positions. The Hindu system is to some extent a continuation of the early Chinese system, although it has not been proved that there was direct influence. The Hindu system is a pure place-value system. Only a pure place-value system needs a symbol for a missing amount, for a non-existent rank, the zero. Only the Hindus within the context of Indo-European civilizations have consistently used a zero.
- Subjects
HINDU mathematics; PLACE value (Mathematics); MATHEMATICS education; CHINESE mathematics; GREEK mathematics
- Publication
Journal of Ramanujan Society of Mathematics & Mathematical Sciences, 2014, Vol 3, Issue 2, p115
- ISSN
2319-1023
- Publication type
Article