Mathematics is an extremely important subject. It can be said that mathematics is the foundation of the development of modern science and technology. Mathematics plays an extremely important role in the development of human history. So what is the origin of mathematics? Let's get to know each other.
0 1 Since the 6th century BC, the rise of Greek mathematics has highlighted the study of "shape". Mathematics has thus become the study of numbers and shapes. Aristotle, a Greek philosopher in the 4th century BC, defined mathematics as "mathematics is the science of quantity." The meaning of "quantity" is vague and cannot be simply understood as "quantity".
Until16th century, British philosopher Bacon divided mathematics into "pure mathematics" and "mixed mathematics". /kloc-in the 0/7th century, Descartes thought: "All sciences that study order and measurement are related to mathematics." 19th century, according to Engels' exposition, mathematics can be defined as: "Mathematics is a science that studies the relationship between spatial form and quantity in the real world."
Since the 1980s, scholars have simply defined mathematics as the science of patterns: "The field of mathematics has always been called the science of patterns, and its purpose is to reveal the structure and symmetry observed by people from the abstract world of nature and mathematics itself."
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.
On the painted pottery bowls in the Neolithic Age, there are many depicting symbols, including,,, ×,+and so on. Probably the earliest notation symbol in China. After the appearance of characters, special characters and decimal notation appeared in Oracle bone inscriptions in Yin Shang Dynasty, and ruler and moment were used as simple drawing and measuring tools. Records of the Laws of the Pre-Han Dynasty recorded the method of expressing numbers and calculating with bamboo sticks, which was called calculation and compilation. In the early Spring and Autumn Period, the multiplication formula was called "99" Song Dynasty, which has become a very common knowledge.