Among many talents, Huawei attaches great importance to mathematicians. Ren said that it is not enough to throw money at chips. Do you have to hit mathematicians, physicists and chemists? . At the same time, he also said that solving problems by physical methods is close to saturation, so we should pay attention to highlighting mathematical methods. ? In the context of big data, if Huawei wants to go further, it must use mathematical thinking to find more effective management methods.
The emphasis on mathematics highlights Huawei's strategic vision and global pattern. However, some data show that among the top 100 famous mathematicians in the world, there are very few in China, and even fewer people are engaged in basic pure mathematics.
This is the gap between reality.
Many people say that China's mathematics is good at calculation and pays attention to procedures, which doomed China's mathematics to be inferior to the west. Is that really the case?
Not exactly.
You know, China is an ancient civilization in the world, and the development of mathematics is also in the forefront of the world.
What is ancient mathematics? Six arts? One. "Zhou Li? Bao Shi:? Cultivating the son of the country by Tao is the six arts of teaching: one is five rites, the other is six music, the third is five shots, the fourth is five emperors' rites, the fifth is six books, and the sixth is nine numbers. ? Meanwhile, Guangya:? Number, art also. ? It can be seen that people have begun to explore the laws of methods. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people used geometric knowledge to carry out urban architecture, land survey and tax calculation. During this period, concepts such as point, line, surface and 99 formula not only appeared, but also were widely used.
In the pre-Qin period, a book full of mathematical speculation appeared in China-The Book of Changes. ? Taiji gives birth to two instruments, two instruments give birth to four elephants, four elephants give birth to eight diagrams, and eight diagrams give birth to sixty-four hexagrams. ? This is a mathematical power formula. Of course, the Book of Changes is calculated and screened by hexagrams and their respective numerical serial numbers, so as to explain the principle of the formation of the universe and attract many people from later generations to study it. For example, Shao Yong, a Yi-ology scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, had an epiphany on the relationship between gossip and mathematics, and initiated? Huang Shishu? It is famous all over the world, and even the German mathematician Leibniz is amazed, saying that this schema conforms to computer binary.
Zu Chongzhi, a mathematician and astronomer in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, put? Pi? Accurate to seven decimal places. The exact value of pi was far ahead in the world at that time. It was not until 1000 years later that the Arab mathematician Alkasi got the exact value of pi 17.
In a long historical period, the development of ancient mathematics in China was at the leading level in the world, especially in the Song and Yuan Dynasties? Algorithm? Is second to none.
Written by Jia Xian in Song Dynasty? Multiplication Kaiping method? And then what? How to operate multiplication? More than 800 years earlier than Britain and Italy; Mathematician Qin systematically studied the problem of congruence equations, which is called? Dayan seeks a skill? Put forward congruence theory nearly 600 years earlier than German mathematician Gauss; Zhu Shijie, a mathematician in Yuan Dynasty, put forward the elimination method for solving high-order simultaneous equations of four elements, which was more than 300 years earlier than that in the West.
We've always been good at math? Cow break? Why is it suddenly gone?
According to the research of many scholars, the reasons are as follows: First, mathematics has lost its motivation. As a traditional agricultural society, there were not many practical problems to be solved in mathematics in Ming and Qing Dynasties. At the same time, one of the driving forces for the development of ancient mathematics in China was astronomy. Without the progress of astronomy, mathematics will stagnate. And second? Literati stereotyped writing? Cutting off the soil for the growth of mathematics, mathematicians mostly engage in their favorite mathematical research after gaining a certain reputation. You can imagine how long this process is. Third, Confucianism and the idea of loyalty to the monarch and protection of the emperor reached their peak, intellectuals were cautious, innovation and creation stagnated, and mathematical science was not innovative.
Of course, there are also views that there are defects in ancient mathematics in China, and China's writing is not conducive to the development of mathematics. Judging from the expression of modern mathematics, there are indeed reasons for this.
China's mathematics was once brilliant, but it almost stagnated in modern times. In modern times, mathematics in China lags far behind that in Europe and America. For example, no one in Chinese mainland has won the Fields Medal, which is the highest prize in mathematics, comparable to the Nobel Prize. This reversal deserves our reflection.