First Tool of Mathematics - Algebra

We used addition all over our life. But we know that it is not sufficient. When we need to explain this process to our next generation we must explain much better than our previous understanding. We must tell it to them in a way by which they can understand it completely. And so we are trying to explain this process much simpler and simpler.

          In that way of making any process simple, we tried to make a common procedure by which it doesn’t have any specified values. We are trying to make the simple representation of the complete theory.  That simple mathematics analogue is called mathematical equation. Mathematical equation is the simple and short one line form that describes all mathematical theory precisely and accurately.                               But how will you represent this equation?

          We don’t anything about it.

          We don’t know how the equation will look like or what may be the things it have or what its property or for which values it is defined or what are the things need for describing that equation.                           Simply the whole thing we are going to study is unknown. Simply it is the form of unknown. But we know there are certain properties for this unknown that is common and universal and not dependent on anything. So step by step we solved the problem of unknown by defining the property of that unknown and by giving some shape for that unknown. This giving sign or symbol for unknown is one of the great methods to the deep understanding of any topic. It made a great renaissance in Mathematics at ancient times.  

          Thus our common and deep analyzing of mathematics was started with these giving symbols for unknown. This process of giving symbols for the unknown is greatly known as Arithmetic. Arithmetic is the tool which explains clearly about the mathematics. So let’s try to know how to use this tool.

In arithmetic we are not doing any special thing of calculation. We are just putting empty space instead of giving some specified values in addition process.

It is simple to derive that common case. For clearance take some examples. We will derive the common thing that is mathematical equation from these data because most of the equations and discoveries are found only by the deep analyze of the given data.  

e.g.    5             +              5      =          10

          29           + 2378434       +          1000    =          2379463         

          355         +   123323       +          80        =          123758

          4234       +     72344       =          76578  

          78764     +       6223       =          84987

          939843   +        790        =          940633

          8093098 +         88         + 10     +    100   =  8093296

Thus a common thing in this addition is that, ‘the amount which has to be added must have some finite amount of values’. And so we can explain that finite value easily by numbers. So, all additions were done with numbers.

When a man write any number like 1 or 2 or 3 at that time his mind already know the inner meaning of that number. Then why he writes because he just wants to give a shape for the inner meaning in his mind. That is how he gave the shape 1 for the inner meaning of some amount.

          In the same way when I need to make a common term for this addition, I don’t know which value will come to the process of addition process. But only thing I know is that there will be some amounts has to be added and that addition will be done by adding some two amounts at single time. But I don’t know what those amounts are.

Simply there will be nothing but we know that there will come something.

It is like taking a seat in the bus by putting an object. You can see some people in buses and other crowded places will place any object of their own in that seat to represent that the seat is theirs. Though the seat is empty, nobody will sit there because they know that somebody is going to come and sit there in that seat.  Although they don’t who is going to sit there, other people will not sit in that empty place. Here the object placed on the seat is the representative of that somebody else.

In the same way on making the common mathematical equation we will put some symbol instead of the object. And that symbol will represent the quantity which is going to come in that empty place.   

And mostly we will use the symbols x, y, z… to represent the empty place in mathematical operation.

Briefly symbols are the representative of the empty places which will be filled later by their belonged amounts in any Mathematical operations. This algebra was used almost in all the topics of mathematics.

Don’t waste your time at any moment on thinking about these symbols. You can give any shape or symbol for the representation. The only thing you need is that the reader who reads your mathematical operation must understand what you mean by that symbol. That is all. It is only used for the understanding of the writer and the reader. In other way they are nothing, just symbols.

          You must practice your mind in a way by which it can identify the inner meaning easily and accurately.

          That is why you can give any shapes or symbols with your convenience. You can give x or y or z or α or β or γ or δ or ε or ζ or any of these symbols - η ϊ ϋ Ϫ ϧ Ϧ Ϣ ϰ ϱ to represent that empty place.

These symbols are just the various scribbles of various people.

Anybody can use any scribble for their personal understanding. 

When you need to promote your scribbling to others, then you just need to specify what you mean by that scribble.  

Thus how algebra was made. So addition of any two unknown amounts can be written as

          X + Y = Z

X is some amount and Y is some other amount and Z is also some other amount.

And X, Y, Z all the three were represented by numbers.

Now we will analyze deeply about this equation to get more information about addition.

What are the possible amounts or numbers that can be filled in these symbols?

At that time we have described number system from 1. And it don’t have any finishing value. So they wrote the whole number system as {1, 2, 3, 4….. }

Only these set of numbers were found at those times.

  

          And so they described the possibility of X, Y, Z as the set of numbers {1, 2, 3...}

The reason because X and Y are some amounts which can be written by the belonged number in that set of numbers and also sum of those amounts will give other amount and its belonged numbers which also lies in that set.

          Hence X, Y, Z all the three will have their belonged numbers of their amounts in that set. 

Accordingly a special name was given for that set of numbers {1, 2, 3…} namely Natural numbers [simply N – Natural numbers]. Maybe they had thought that in Nature there are only one set of numbers that is Natural numbers.  But after many various numbers were found.

Thus,

Various numbers were found on the basis of deep analysis of various mathematical operations.