# Importance of a Random Variable [duplicate]

I've been reading about random variables and I don't get as to what is the importance of a random variable in statistics? I mean why is it a useful concept?

Given a sample space of all outcomes of a probabilistic experiment $$\Omega =\{\omega_1,\omega_2,...,\omega_n\}$$. The random variable $$\eta$$ is a mapping from sample space to set of real numbers i.e. $$\eta:\Omega\mapsto\mathbb{R}$$
So essentially random variables give some numeric characteristic of an outomce. For the experiment of rolling two dice the outcomes of each die are from $$S = \{1,2,...,6\}$$ and the sample space is $$\Omega = S \times S = \{(1,1), (1,2),...,(6,6)\}$$; so we may define a random variable that represents the sum of 2 dice i.e. $$\eta((1,1)) = 2$$. Therefore, if the value of interest is the sum of the 2 dice then we encapsulate the necessary numerical values with random variables; thus, having a compact notation for computing desired probabilities. Moreover, the mapping enables to define cumulative distribution function (c.d.f) of random variable i.e.
$$F_\eta(x) = \mathbb{P}(\omega:\eta(\omega) \leq x)$$