1, a famous saying about mathematics:

Russell said, "Mathematics is symbol plus logic".

Pythagoras said, "Numbers dominate the universe".

Halmos said, "Mathematics is a unique art".

Misra said, "Mathematics is the highest achievement of human thinking".

Bacon (English philosopher) said, "Mathematics is the key to science".

2. The content of interesting mathematical stories-the origin of Arabic numerals

Arabic numerals were actually invented by Indians. About 1500 years ago, Indians used a special word to represent numbers. There are 10 words, and you can write both strokes.

Later, these figures were introduced into Arabia. Arabs think these numbers are simple and practical, so they are widely used in their own countries and spread to Europe. In this way, it gradually became the number we use today. Because Arabs have played a great role in the spread of these numbers, people are used to calling them Arabic numbers.

Mathematical short stories

1. Archimedes, an ancient Greek scholar, died at the hands of Roman enemy soldiers who attacked Sicily. ), people carved the figure of the ball in the cylinder on his tombstone to commemorate his discovery that the volume and surface area of the ball are two-thirds of that of the circumscribed cylinder.

Archimedes was born in Syracuse, Sicily, at the southern tip of the Italian peninsula in 287 BC. Father is a mathematician and astronomer. Archimedes had a good family upbringing since childhood. 1 1 years old, was sent to study in Alexandria, the cultural center of Greece.

In this famous city known as the "Capital of Wisdom", Archimedes Job collected books and learned a lot of knowledge, and became a protege of Euclid students erato Sese and Cannon, studying geometric elements.