Showing posts with label natural numbers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label natural numbers. Show all posts

Clear Concept Of Number System : Chapter 4

Tuesday, February 8, 2011


It is composed of various numbers, symbols or figures responding numbers and certain rules governing operations on them. The numbers can be represented by {1, 2, 3…..} or {i,ii,iii,} what is of importance is the nature and characteristic of these numbers, whether they are capable of performing one or more operations of addition, multiplication, division and subtraction. It is because of this that instead of attaching any undue importance to any system, e.g., decimal, binary, a good deal of importance is being attached to the properties of the system. It wills a time be explained by symbols only. The conceptual clarity or the logic of the system is emphasized more and not more familiarity with the numbers. We initiate the number system by natural numbers and then proceed on to other system.

Structure:
  • Natural Numbers (N)
  • Addition on N
  • Multiplication on N
  • The Integers (I)
  • Modulo
  • Prime Numbers
  • Rational Numbers (R)
  • Properties of Q
  • Irrational Numbers (RI)
  • Real Number
  • Properties of Real Number
  • Modulus of Real Numbers
  • Imaginary Numbers
  • Complex Numbers

Objectives:
After studying this chapter you should be able to understand
  • Natural numbers, integers, rational and irrational numbers, real numbers imaginary and also complex numbers
  • Different properties and operations of these numbers.

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The Natural Number (N) : Real Number System

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4… which are used for counting, natural numbers. Thus while 618 is a natural number; 0, -7, or 13.2 are not natural numbers.

Italian mathematician Peano has given five postulates (axioms) called Peano Postulates (P) as the properties of natural numbers. To speak in the language of modern mathematics, we say let there be a nonempty set N such that..


By postulate V we reach any natural number starting with 1 and counting consecutive successive numbers.

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