When it comes to mathematics, some people may be interested, while others may have a headache. Whenever I hear someone complain that math is difficult and the math teacher is fierce, I think of myself tortured by math. But after reading "This is the best math book", I began to reflect on the experience of learning math-it was not that I didn't learn well in those years, but that I didn't study hard at all.

As long as we look at what the author said in the chapter "What psychological qualities are needed to learn mathematics well", we find that we have many shortcomings, which are exactly what we need to learn every subject well. In fact, if we have half the psychological qualities mentioned by the author, we can make some achievements in any field.

For example, a clumsy person can become a master by focusing on one thing. There is no doubt about this, but in the atmosphere of exam-oriented education, we often can't concentrate on one point, but we will lose because of a little bad.

People who claim that they can't learn mathematics well often hold some stubborn views: this course is difficult or boring, "I" lacks mathematical thinking, is not interested in mathematics, and it is useless to learn mathematics ... In fact, this is a great misunderstanding of mathematics. This book tells us with many vivid stories that mathematics is not only useful, interesting, but also powerful.

Because, no matter in which era, it is closely related to human life. Moreover, the development of mathematics is closely related to the economic strength of countries and regions. Readers will be deeply shocked by the power of mathematics if they can study the relevant examples in the book.

To explore the origin of mathematics, we should start with the origin of numbers. In ancient times, people lacked knowledge of numbers, and they collectively referred to numbers above 3 as "duo". This concept must be familiar to China people who have read classical Chinese. It is said that people used their fingers and toes to count at first, but their hands and feet can only represent 20 at most. If you want to represent numbers above 2 1, you must let another person count with his fingers and toes.

Therefore, the counting units we use now, such as 10, 100, 1000, are all painstakingly studied by our ancestors for thousands or even tens of thousands of years. Think about it, it took such a long time to generate numbers alone, and now our ancestors have spent a lot of effort to sum up all kinds of knowledge about mathematics!

As the author said, it is a complicated and long process that we can easily use the number 10 from 0 to 9 in our daily life, and make complex calculations through addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, thus further deriving advanced mathematics such as analytic geometry and calculus. In this tens of millions of years of history, there are countless stories that scholars have devoted themselves to.

I believe many people have heard of Euclid's famous saying, "The process of learning geometry cannot be smooth sailing". As for the persecution of mathematical researchers in medieval Europe, it is difficult for people today to understand and deeply sigh. Without their persistence and dedication, we can't see such rich mathematical achievements and feel mathematical wisdom today. In addition, it is no accident that mathematicians are keen on taking the road of "secret organization".

The author says that mathematicians are "secret organizations", mainly because some schools of mathematics pursue secret associationism, such as Pythagoras School in ancient Greece and Guanliu Mathematics in Japan. Students of these secret mathematics organizations are strictly forbidden to reveal the knowledge taught by teachers to outsiders, and even advanced mathematics is almost directly passed on to disciples in the form of manuscripts.

It is precisely because of this confidential teaching method that Guanliu Mathematics soon disappeared after the introduction of western new mathematics. For non-mathematics majors, they may not know much about Guan Liu's mathematics, but as a Japanese author, he is deeply proud of Guan Liu's mathematics and feels quite sorry for its disappearance, so he has spent a lot of time on this issue.

In short, This is the Best Mathematics Book is a great book, which can be said to be very interesting, knowledgeable and inspiring. The author not only tells us what mathematics is and how to learn it well, but also tells us the preciousness of youth with many vivid examples and how to treat our study and work. And his life experience of becoming a master of mathematics by self-study with tenacious willpower makes people pay tribute to this book.