In particular, x, which we first encountered in elementary school math, was not representative of anything previously unknown to us. Later X-ray, Malcolm X began to appear in many terms.

without having to worry too much let’s go on x’s journey to being unknown. But after reading the article, it is very possible that you see the letter x as two lines stretching to infinity instead of one letter!

The symbolism of the letter X is “search and invent”.

as in the letter X meeting of two lines at one point or the letter x made up of arrows pointing to a single point from all directions, east, west, north and south, represents the “seek and invent” in our lives.

To understand the unknown defined as X, we have almost We have to go back 2000 years in time. At that time, the Islamic world, where many scientific studies took place, trained scholars who contributed to the development of modern science. Because the works of these people were in Arabic, many scientific terms today have their origin in Arabic.

The phrase “al-algebra”, meaning “the reconciliation of independent parts”, has also passed into the Western language as “algebra”.

Khwarizmi, who lived in the 9th century and was one of the founders of modern mathematics, laid the foundations of mathematics with his studies of classical Greek, Indian and Egyptian sources while working at the Information Council in Baghdad in 832. an impact that for centuries mathematics was symbolically known in Europe as ‘al-Khwarizmi’ mathematics. The first letter of his name is difficult to pronounce in European languages. It has become “al-Gwarizmi”. Today this term is used as an “algorithm”.

The interest in the works of Islamic scholars who came to Spain and Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries caused these works to be immediately translated into Spanish.

Some letters that had no Spanish equivalent in Arabic made translation difficult. one of them letter shin.

There is no letter in Spanish that makes the “ş” sound. The letter S is also the first letter of the word “seylan”, which means “something”. As a solution to this, they used the Greek letter χ, which is pronounced “çi” in Greek for “shi” and is represented by a character similar to the Latin x. There was, of course, still foresight. According to this, the word is often found in Greek texts They used the conjunction ϗ, which is read as “kai” (και) and means “and”. Although there is no definitive proof, it is said that the symbol çi and the conjunction “kai” that the Spaniards used for the unknown gave way over time to the letter “x” in Latin.

But for some, it’s not about the pronunciation, but about the meaning of the word.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary offered a theory on this subject. According to the theory, European scholars Translate the Arabic “thing” into Greek “xei” and they only started abbreviating it as X over time. There is also the Greek word “xenos” which means “unknown”.

Basically, English words are common Even though 0.15% of them have the letter x, because the Spaniards cannot pronounce the letter “ş” We have identified X with the unknown.