Reflection on Numbers with Personality

 

Source: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hardy-RamanujanNumber.html

 

I have read the biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan. One of the interesting things about Ramanujan’s life is treating numbers as his friends and make connections between personal life and the real world and numbers. Due to this personality, he came up with the number 1729 called “Hardy- Ramanujan’s number”. After reading Major’s article, I understand the term OLP and synaesthesia; I can say that Ramanujan had OLP. The article points out that many people have a different interpretation of numbers in terms of their personalities. 

           I feel that introducing numbers with their personalities to the students will help them to deal with the anxiety of numbers. For example, many students scared from number “0”. I think if we explain the story behind the innovation of numbers and their importance in the classroom, then it will help students to deal with their number's anxiety. One other way to overcome this problem is to tell students to share their cultural belief in the representation of numbers because each culture has a different representation of numbers.

           During my school years, I remember that I always felt that positive numbers are friendly than negative numbers and easy to use. Other than that, I do not have any personalities about numbers, but I want to share something interesting about personalities of days of the week. In India, people consider Wednesday as lucky day and Thursday as a misfortunate day for the brother-sister relationship. I remembered my mother always forbid me to wash my hair on Thursday because of the beliefs that washing hairs on that day will bring misfortunate in a brother-sister relationship.