SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMNT OF MATHEMATICAL BENT OF MIND
SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMNT OF MATHEMATICAL BENT OF MIND
Friends, ‘Mathematics is a queen of sciences’
-It is a science amongst sciences, and art among arts. Ancient mathematicians studied Mathematics as a handmaid to astronomy and commerce. They developed Geometry to measure lands, construct buildings etc.
Ancient Greeks saw it as a science which needed logic for its development. They drew inspiration from the Analytic and Synthetic or Inductive and Deductive methods of reasoning. They derived pleasure in solving mathematical problems, and considered it as one of the necessary subjects to be studied in their curriculum. Admission into their academics was denied to those who had no knowledge of mathematics- and education was imperfect without the study of maths. Had there been no such study of mathematics, the progress of humanity would have been static and still we would have found man leading barbarian lives.
