Every science has its history of development. As a historical science, it is both historic and realistic. Its reality is first reflected in the continuity of scientific concepts and methods. Today's scientific research has deepened and developed the tradition of historical science or solved the problems of historical science to a certain extent. Therefore, it is impossible to separate the relationship between scientific reality and scientific history.

2. Cultural significance of the history of mathematics.

Klein, an American historian of mathematics, once said: "The overall characteristics of an era are closely related to its mathematical activities to a great extent. This relationship is particularly evident in our time. " Mathematics is not only a method, an art, a language, but also a rich knowledge system. Its contents are very useful to natural scientists, social scientists, philosophers, logicians and artists, and influence the theories of politicians and theologians. "

3. Educational significance of the history of mathematics.

After studying the history of mathematics, we naturally feel that the development of mathematics is illogical, or that the actual situation of mathematics development is very different from the mathematics textbooks we have learned today. The content of middle school mathematics belongs to the basic knowledge of mathematics before calculus in17th century, while most of the contents of university mathematics department are17th and18th century advanced mathematics.

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The task of studying the history of mathematics is to find out the basic historical facts in the process of mathematical development, reproduce the original features of mathematical development, make a scientific and reasonable explanation, explanation and evaluation of mathematical achievements, and explore the theoretical system and development model of mathematical science development through these historical phenomena, so as to explore the law and cultural essence of mathematical science development.

As the basic methods and means to study the history of mathematics, there are many methods such as historical textual research, mathematical analysis and comparative research. Among the numerous research achievements of ancient arithmetic in China, the advanced ideas and methods of western mathematical design have been bred for a long time. In modern times, many of the world's leading mathematical research achievements are named after China mathematicians.

Baidu Encyclopedia-History of Mathematics

Baidu Encyclopedia-History of Mathematics Development