Differences in Perspectives

Complexity of 9/6 Numbers:

I saw a colorful hand drawn painting recently, it was exactly what I had in mind. Two people stand facing each other, one says six and the other nine. Both perceive the number as they see it from the side that is visible to them.

The shape similarity of these 9/6 numbers is used in many places. In fact, in many films, the directors sometimes included humorous and sometimes serious scenes. For example, the room number 6 or 9 of the hotel room is turned upside down because the screw has come loose and the murderer enters the wrong room.

Of course, we can take it as a joke, but there is a great philosophy behind this joke, in fact, being able to look at events from different perspectives is a very special philosophy of life. Not everyone can, and most of us can't.

I was wondering where the similarity in shape in these two numbers comes from. I won't go into the importance of the number 9, its mystery or the evil of the number 6, but first, let's take a look at the numbers historically. Why are the numbers 6 and 9 symbolized as opposites of each other? Any meaningful reason?

Business Bone:

I did some research on the internet. I have reached the following information on the times when human beings started counting things and the shapes of numbers:

In 1960, in the Ishango region of the Congo, they found a bone filled with notches, a baboon bone, a thigh bone. It's called the "Ishango Bone". A bone that is more than 20,000 years old. The Oschango Bone is on display in a museum in Brussels.

There is another piece of information, they found another bone, this time a 30-35 thousand year old wolf bone is mentioned. There were 55 notches on it, divided into groups of five.

It means that our historical ancestors started counting things back then.

It is accepted that the history of systematic counting, not nicking, begins with the Sumerians. History of writing and numbers BC It dates back to 5000 years.

Archaeologists BC. They found cones and balls made of clay, meaning 1, 10, and 60, dating from the 3500s. The 60's numeral scheme is from the Sumerians, the use of seconds, minutes, degrees for angles, we use them in the same order today.

Babylon's Counting System:

The writing of larger numbers by putting the numbers side by side is from Babylon, it says. The bet takes place in Babylon, the historical city-state of the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

In ancient Egypt and even in Central America, the Mayas had different symbols and number systems. We still use Roman numerals in Europe today, although not very often.

Zero's M.S. Mathematics already begins with its discovery in India in the 7th century. It is accepted that today's ten numeral system and numeral symbols spread from India to the world.

The first historical forms of the numbers we use today are from the Brahmian Buddhist monks. Their historical originals are called "Brahmi Numbers". The Brahmis also had an alphabet, the Uyghurs also used this alphabet for a while, there were old Turkish texts written in Brahmi letters.

There is a document found in India, referred to as the "3rd Dadda's donation document", considered to be the oldest document ever found in history with symbols similar to today's numbers, A.D. It is calculated that it belongs to the year 594. The Indians used a calendar in their own way at that time. It is thought that the symbols were written on the document as the date of that day.

Contribution of Arabs to Mathematics:

Later, the Arabs took over the instrument, the numbers we use, which, with minor changes, took their final form over time. Algebra is already the discovery of the Arabs. He also contributed a lot to mathematics. In fact, a deep-rooted culture is Arab culture. Every culture is beautiful in its own way, they are the common wealth of humanity.

Europe did not want to use today's numbers and the decimal number system, the church insisted on continuing with the Roman numerals and system, but nothing could stand in the way of science and technology, even though they had banned its use before, they were forced to learn.

Then, as you already know, Europe took the instrument, and the famous math book Calculus is the work of Isaac Newton. And of course Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. At about the same time, they both wrote separate works. That's why some formulas use different symbols for the same subject, some from Newton, some from Leibniz.

Anyway, now the whole world is doing math operations with these Indo-Arabic numerals and decimal system. Look what those Indian Buddhist monks, the Brahmis did. They made the system they found accepted all over the world. Of course, the contribution of the Arabs should not be forgotten.

System Used by Turks:

Since the logical decimal system is ten fingers, there can be nothing more natural than the establishment of the system in decimal order. Our fingers have been the perfect tool for counting for almost all cultures, and for us too.

Although some cultures have different systems, for example, some cultures use twenties or different systems. Some natives living on the islands in the great ocean used not only their fingers but also other parts of their body while counting, counting up to 27.

There is also the dozen system, you know, the 12 number system. Although we learned the word dozen from the French, the word, like many other words, is originally of Latin origin. They also learned the system from ancient Mesopotamia. In other words, the dozen system is a counting system from Mesopotamia, we still use it.

We Turks, on the other hand, actually have a fifties order. But we also set up our counting system, like other cultures, through our fingers. When I say order, I mean that we have given different names to the numbers up to fifty, otherwise our system is also a system of 10, and in numbers above fifty, we have derived new numbers over other numbers. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty. Sixty is now derived from the number six, and so are the sequels. And a hundred, a thousand, a division. Don't always derive tweens.

Ana, for some reason we don't have symbols for numbers. We are not as good with numbers as other cultures, so it would be more correct to say that our ancestors did not think of showing numbers with symbols, not numbers. In our historical documents, numbers are always written in writing. Perhaps no historical evidence with a numeral symbol has yet been found. Maybe we have our own symbols buried somewhere, who knows. I think you should keep looking, is there anyone who is trying? I don't know, we have a lot of universities, maybe someone is trying. Anyway, the situation is not that bad, after all, we taught the whole world the modern army order in the decimal system.

We even taught the Russians our number system, but then we forgot it ourselves. In Russia, "it took half past four" to mean "it's half past three" is our own system. Our number system has not been forgotten in Azerbaijan, they use it like the Russians.

Numbers 6 and 9:

Yes, let's move on to the numbers 6 and 9. In fact, their historical forms were not all that similar. But over time, they took the opposite view of each other. When I look at the picture, what I understand is that they weren't especially thought of like that from the beginning, so there is no connection between them.

But it's a good irony to explain the colorful hand-drawn painting perspective difference I mentioned at the beginning.

I think there are always problems among us humans because most of us can't look at things from different perspectives. As if we are wearing blinders, we interpret everything only from the way we see it, from the angle, as we perceive it. As such, we find it difficult to understand each other.

Look what came to mind, there was a movie by Mel Gipson called "What do women want?" (What women want). It was released in 2000. Somehow in the movie, Mel Gipson was electrocuted and he was able to read the thoughts of the women next to him, although he liked it at first, this situation later turned into torture. At the end of the movie, he started to see life from different perspectives and became a completely different person. It's a good movie, you must remember it. I don't think there's anyone left to watch.

A fantasy is depicted in the movie, but I don't know if scientists will one day be able to develop a technology that can actually read people's minds. I know there is some work. If they are successful, then perhaps it will be easier to find common sense. Of course, if this technology is used in good faith. For now, opinions can only be asked when requested and a common opinion can be reached in this way. It is only valid for a small majority of people who are in this consciousness. Especially those who have a certain power continue to read what they know.

Conclusion:

I see this as a problem. I think this problem is especially related to family, childhood, upbringing.

I think we cannot teach our children to look at our children from different perspectives because our families are not yet conscious enough themselves.

If we want to be a healthy society, I think we need to start teaching our children, at least from kindergarten, that others can see things differently and sometimes think differently. We need to be taught that this is perfectly normal and should be respected.

We can't, maybe then they can learn to respect each other because they learn. Maybe then this country will have a peaceful society in the future. If a peaceful society leads to the establishment of peaceful families and they teach their children the importance of different perspectives, then this country will stand for eternity.

We come again to the problem of education, which is our biggest problem. This subject is so deep, my mind is not enough. I didn't get the training either, and my knowledge is not enough. "Education is a must!" as in a commercial film made by dear Cem Yılmaz once. Let me end here by saying.

Love and regards from Moscow.