Numbers in Human Life: Historical and Practical Perspectives

Abstract

Numbers are used to represent natural events and human activities. Telephone numbers, license numbers, social security numbers, mobile numbers, and jeep codes, etc., are based on numbers. We use numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on for counting. The numbers are used to express frequencies of quantities in any human activity or anything else. The early symbols of numbers as the unit of mathematics were scratched in different sources in different civilizations. This paper aims to explore the scratched features of numbers. This paper is based on document analysis as a historical basis and a few practical approaches. The origin of mathematics also starts from the concepts of number. Numbers are the mental schema that are abstract but actual. How the idea of numbers is used in real/practical life situation with its concretization that is the main motto of this paper.