With the development of human society, mathematical science has its own development process. Academician A Bian of the former Soviet Academy of Sciences? Colmo Golov once divided the history of mathematical development into four stages: in the first stage, the concept of natural numbers, calculation methods and simple geometric figures appeared, and in the later stage, the writing of numbers, the arithmetic operation of numbers and the application of some geometric figures appeared to solve simple algebraic problems; The second stage gradually formed branches of elementary mathematics, namely, arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry; The third stage, the establishment of analytic geometry, calculus, probability theory and other disciplines; In the fourth stage, there have been major breakthroughs in computer science, many branches of applied mathematics and some problems of pure mathematics.
China Mathematics has made outstanding contributions in the history of world mathematics development. As early as ancient times, people used knots to indicate the number of things. A large number of symmetrical patterns, such as straight lines, triangles, circles, squares, diamonds, pentagons and hexagons, were painted on painted pottery, and geometric figures were also found on the bases of house ruins, indicating that ancient people had already had the concepts of numbers and shapes to some extent.