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Mathematics and Life

Mathematics is specially based on thinking and strategy. As I mention thinking and strategy, my mind goes to games like chess and badminton. In chess, player should have a reasonable explanation for every movement he does. Same in a game like badminton; there the player should concentrate on the movements and the behavior of the opposition. Or else in both cases the opposition may get the penalty.Life is a kind of an unpredictable one. It consists of many challenges and hiccups. Hiccups and challenges are like bread and butter of life. Same as when a student gets a math problem in the exam, it is a type of a challenge to him. There he needs to think more accurately as well as how his instructor thinks. Here the professor will become the opposition. It’s just like judging the movements of the opposition and the reasonable explanation in such games, which I mentioned earlier.

Mathematicians are the best thinkers in a society; they should be, but does it always occur in the same manner? As an example someone may be genius in mathematics but he may not be that much outstanding towards a day-to-day problem. It will leave a question mark in front of us. “Did every mathematician have a successful and a happy family life?” They did not, but why? Because they were unable to apply those theorems practically to their informal life. In mathematics, first step is to understand the problem.

When a student gets two equations like;

2x + y =10—-(1)

x + y = 5—-(2)

The student knows x should be eliminated in order to get an answer for y. Then he will subtract (1)st equation from the (2)nd and find the answer easily.

If it was like;

2x + y + 3z = 10—-(1)

x +2y+ z = 5—-(2)

Now the student is deep trouble. There he knows that the problem cannot be solved. He should have at least three equations in order to find the answer for three unknowns. It was the same method but different application. Same as in life, the problem may get complicated when the unknowns kept increasing. Answer for the math problem comes either with the experience of students’ problem solving in mathematics or through the teaching of the professor. Same as that, answer for personal matters can be gained by either with experience or through the guidance of someone else. You should have a shoulder to cry on when you are in deep trouble, but that may not necessarily end with a solution.

Life should have an imagined co-ordinate axis and it does need vectors. Otherwise you may not know where you are located or to which direction you are moving towards. By the end, life may get miserable as a result of not applying the vector principle. Let us consider the popular saying; “If you won’t build castles in the air you won’t build them in anywhere.” You still need to follow the direction and the co-ordinate till you build the castle.

Limits and derivatives are the vital parts in life that will show the exact limits beyond us. Then one can alter himself according to those barriers.

Relative velocity and relative motion are popular topics among the mathematicians and the publications related with mathematics. Of course, each and every living organism does have relativity. As the earth keeps moving you and I, we will become objects which are relative to the earth, which means the speedometer of a car doesn’t show us the exact speed. Life should need this relativity through our behavior and our expressions of day-to-day lifestyle. As an example, someone cannot show up with a party dress at a funeral. If that were done, you might become a clown in front of others. That is how relativity takes an important part in our lifestyle. As a common fact, every life should be relative to our environment. Pollution, infrared waves and skin diseases are among some of those debts that younger generation has to pay for. The main reason for those debts is stepping out of that particular mathematical principle.

It may be unfair for me to conclude by mentioning; “everything depends on mathematics,” but life can be described as a hard math problem, and the answer is hidden inside the problem.