In ancient times, the main principles of mathematics were the study of astronomy, the rational distribution of land and food crops, taxation and trade. Mathematics is formed to understand the relationship between numbers, measure land and predict astronomical events. These needs can be simply summarized as the study of quantity, structure, space and time in mathematics.

After the Renaissance in Western Europe from ancient Greece to16th century, elementary mathematics, such as elementary algebra and elementary trigonometry, has been basically complete, but the concept of limit has not yet appeared.

/kloc-in the 0/7th century, the concept of variable came into being in Europe, which made people begin to study the mutual transformation relationship between changing quantity and number. In the process of establishing classical mechanics, the method of combining calculus with geometric accuracy was invented. With the further development of natural science and technology, the fields of set theory and mathematical logic, which study the basis of mathematics, began to develop slowly.

The evolution of extended data mathematics can be regarded as the continuous development of abstraction and the extension of subject matter. Eastern and western cultures have also adopted different angles. European civilization developed geometry, and China developed arithmetic. The first abstract concept is probably number (China's calculation), and its cognition that two apples and two oranges have something in common is a great breakthrough in human thought.

Besides knowing how to calculate the number of actual objects, prehistoric humans also knew how to calculate the number of abstract concepts, such as time-date, season and year. Arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) also came into being naturally.

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Baidu encyclopedia-mathematics