With the success of Christmas show, Anusha was happy with performance of magic math school children in forming any shape and developing the entire scene. She assigned the job of creating show for New Year celebration.
She also trained line children to compose numbers and letters. Both straight lines and curved lines had to work together for this work. Only for composing i and j small letters, they had to take help of point.
She had a serious doubt now. If numbers and letters require use of lines and points, they must be present before the birth of numbers and letters. But she had learned numbers and words by listening to specific sounds. Then who is elder to whom?
When she asked Ojas about her doubt. He was also not knowing the answer. He said “ We shall ask our grandfather to explain this riddle.” Anusha’s dad was happy that both Ojas and Anusha are taking interest in science and maths and liked idea of Ojas. As their grandfather was in India, he contacted him on skype and asked him to clear doubts of Anusha.
Anusha told him about the magic math school and how she could construct numbers and letters with points and lines. She asked. “ Aaba ( Shortform she used to call ‘Aajoba’ in Marathi), who were born first? Points and lines or Numbers and Letters?”
Her grandfather was very happy that she got this doubt. He said "You are very clever girl to get such doubt. Nobody had asked me this question up till now. The answer is that man sensed objects in the environment through his senses like eyes, ears, nose, toung and skin and gave some names for storing them in memory. At that time man was using only different sounds for these names.
Numbers were invented later to count these objects and language with letters and numbers came much later. The language was not sufficient to explain the objects in nature . Hence the points, lines and other shapes were invented by scientists and mathematicians.
In nature there are no points. How they can exist if points do not have any measurable size. Lines are composed of points and shapes are composed of lines. Hence all these are only tools developed by man for measuring and defining shape of natural objects.”
Most of the explanation given by grandfather was beyond grasping capacity of Anusha and Ojas. But Anusha said “ I think that everything must be originated in dream like my magic math school”
“ Right. Do you know ? Almost all inventions have stories related to dreams of scientists ?”
“ Is it so? “ Ojas said “ Then we both are scientists.”
“ Yes sure. You will be great scientists if you can dream such things. But for that you have to study the subject by heart and keep thinking about it all the time. ” Grandfather replied.
He said he wishes to join their dream sometime in future. Both Ojas and Anusha invited him to visit their magic schools.
Grandfather said “ For that I must study a lot like you.”
She also trained line children to compose numbers and letters. Both straight lines and curved lines had to work together for this work. Only for composing i and j small letters, they had to take help of point.
When she asked Ojas about her doubt. He was also not knowing the answer. He said “ We shall ask our grandfather to explain this riddle.” Anusha’s dad was happy that both Ojas and Anusha are taking interest in science and maths and liked idea of Ojas. As their grandfather was in India, he contacted him on skype and asked him to clear doubts of Anusha.
Anusha told him about the magic math school and how she could construct numbers and letters with points and lines. She asked. “ Aaba ( Shortform she used to call ‘Aajoba’ in Marathi), who were born first? Points and lines or Numbers and Letters?”
Her grandfather was very happy that she got this doubt. He said "You are very clever girl to get such doubt. Nobody had asked me this question up till now. The answer is that man sensed objects in the environment through his senses like eyes, ears, nose, toung and skin and gave some names for storing them in memory. At that time man was using only different sounds for these names.
Numbers were invented later to count these objects and language with letters and numbers came much later. The language was not sufficient to explain the objects in nature . Hence the points, lines and other shapes were invented by scientists and mathematicians.
In nature there are no points. How they can exist if points do not have any measurable size. Lines are composed of points and shapes are composed of lines. Hence all these are only tools developed by man for measuring and defining shape of natural objects.”
Most of the explanation given by grandfather was beyond grasping capacity of Anusha and Ojas. But Anusha said “ I think that everything must be originated in dream like my magic math school”
“ Right. Do you know ? Almost all inventions have stories related to dreams of scientists ?”
“ Is it so? “ Ojas said “ Then we both are scientists.”
“ Yes sure. You will be great scientists if you can dream such things. But for that you have to study the subject by heart and keep thinking about it all the time. ” Grandfather replied.
He said he wishes to join their dream sometime in future. Both Ojas and Anusha invited him to visit their magic schools.
Grandfather said “ For that I must study a lot like you.”
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