Do we Really Fear Mathematics?

Suppose if I pose a question in front of you "do you fear eating", then certainly it will have dual answers from most of you. Some of the foods are delicious to eat while "Ghar ka khana" is not preferred by most of you but in the end, you have to eat that. Similarly, this "Math" has inevitable influences in our life and we all certainly use it consciously or inadvertently. Whenever you utter " it's too much for me", " I don't need such a huge bedsheet" and so on, we include maths in it. Quantity is a part of mathematics and we all use it necessarily as well as for our convenience. Though we may not like " Ghar ka khana " still we know the latent positive implications it has in our body, in the same way even if we hate maths, we are bound to include it anyway. We all have watched our parents folding the bedsheets or we ourselves have done it. Have we ever wondered why the folding is so appropriate, opposite edges coinciding upon each other? It is because of the symmetry of the shape of the bedsheets, Again an application of mathematics.

Now let us consider the shape of the bedsheet. Most of the bedsheets are 3 dimensional rectangular. Why is it so, why not circle or triangle? It is primarily because humans tend to grow rapidly more in the length of the body than in width, analogous with the properties of rectangles. But we all can cover ourselves under a triangle also, isn't it, provided the area of the triangle is large enough. It can be mathematically proved that in order to obtain the area of a rectangle by a triangle, the height or the base of the triangle should be greater than either the length or the breadth of the rectangle. Preparing such a triangular the bedsheet is obviously futile as there will be adjustment issues.

Many rules and regulations, principles, policies often depict the use of math in a simple way. For example "United we stand, divided we fall". This motivational quote explicitly uses the term "divided" to carry out the meaning. While implicitly, it implies that in a team/group, every member's contribution towards the goal ultimately culminates in success. Thus each member's contribution can be taken as a proper fraction and the summation of all these fractions results in unity = 1.

Britishers also analysed this motto to capture the Indians. Since every, a proper fraction is less than one ( x/x+n < 1) the Britishers left no stone unturned to bifurcate the Indians and thus simultaneously ruled India. Now your perception must have changed a bit. These are the essence of mathematics. Like we are bound by nature, a symbolism of eternal beauty, similarly we are bound by mathematics, a beautiful thing.