Mathematics, like other branches of science, is an intellectual accumulation developed through human social practice and production activities under certain social conditions. Its main content reflects the quantitative relationship and spatial form of the real world, as well as their relationship and structure. This can be confirmed from the origin of mathematics. The Nile in ancient Africa, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in West Asia, the Indus and Ganges rivers in Central and South Asia, and the Yellow and Yangtze rivers in East Asia are the birthplaces of mathematics. Due to the need of agricultural production, the ancestors in these areas have accumulated rich experience from long-term practical activities such as irrigation, measuring field area, calculating warehouse volume, calculating calendars suitable for agricultural production, and related wealth calculation and product exchange, and gradually formed corresponding technical knowledge and related mathematical knowledge. Mathematics, whose English is Mathematics, is a plural noun. "Mathematics used to be four subjects: arithmetic and geometry. In life, mathematics is everywhere! So, how did mathematics come into being? When did it originate? These are difficult questions to answer, because the primitive accumulation process of basic mathematical concepts occurred before human beings created the idea of written records. There are some ancient and magical legends about the origin of mathematics. Legend has it that in very, very distant ancient times, one day, a "dragon horse" suddenly jumped out of the waves of the Yellow River. On the horse's back, there is a picture with many mysterious mathematical symbols painted on it. Later, a "god turtle" climbed out of the calm waterinfo, with a book on its back, which explained the arrangement of numbers. The picture on horseback is called River Map, and the book on turtle's back is called Luo Shu. Mathematics was born as soon as the Book of Hutuluo appeared. Mathematics is the oldest subject, and its origin can be traced back to more than ten thousand years ago. However, very little information has been preserved before 1000. So far, only in ancient Egypt and Babylon have systematic mathematical documents been found. As early as 65,438+05,000 years ago, human beings have been able to describe the images of people and animals quite realistically. This is the earliest evidence of the germination of graphic consciousness. Later, it gradually began to pursue circles and straight lines, thus becoming the earliest prototype of mathematical graphics. In daily life and production practice, counting consciousness and counting system have gradually emerged. Humans have explored a variety of counting methods, including knotting with ropes at first, counting with stones, and further expressing language points with symbols, and gradually developing into the numbers we use today. When graphic consciousness and counting consciousness develop to a certain extent, measurement consciousness appears. This series of development and evolution has gradually formed a complete mathematical discipline that we are familiar with today, including arithmetic, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, calculus, statistics and probability (in fact, it was originally for people to study gambling) ... and so on, and it is still developing. Look, this is the origin and development of mathematics! You got it?