2. Mathematics is a universal means for human beings to strictly describe abstract structures and patterns of things, and can be applied to any problems in the real world. All mathematical objects are artificially defined in essence. In this sense, mathematics belongs to formal science, not natural science. Different mathematicians and philosophers have a series of views on the exact scope and definition of mathematics.
Mathematics plays an irreplaceable role in the development of human history and social life, and it is also an indispensable basic tool for studying and studying modern science and technology.
4. Mathematical structure: Many mathematical objects such as numbers, functions, geometry, etc. Reflect the internal structure of continuous operation or the relationship defined therein. Mathematics studies the properties of these structures, for example, number theory studies how integers are represented under arithmetic operations. In addition, things with similar properties often occur in different structures, which makes it possible for a class of structures to describe their state through further abstraction and then axioms. What needs to be studied is to find out the structures that satisfy these axioms among all structures. Therefore, we can learn abstract systems such as groups, rings and domains. These studies (structures defined by algebraic operations) can form the field of abstract algebra. Because abstract algebra has great universality, it can often be applied to some seemingly unrelated problems. For example, some problems of drawing rulers and rulers in ancient times were finally solved by Galois theory, which involved the theory of presence and group theory. Another example of algebraic theory is linear algebra, which makes a general study of vector spaces with quantitative and directional elements. These phenomena show that geometry and algebra, which were originally considered irrelevant, actually have a strong correlation. Combinatorial mathematics studies the method of enumerating several objects satisfying a given structure.
5. Mathematical space: The study of space comes from Euclid geometry. Trigonometry combines space and numbers, including the famous Pythagorean theorem, trigonometric function and so on. Now the research on space is extended to high-dimensional geometry, non-Euclidean geometry and topology. Numbers and spaces play an important role in analytic geometry, differential geometry and algebraic geometry. In differential geometry, there are concepts such as fiber bundle and calculation on manifold. Algebraic geometry has the description of geometric objects such as polynomial equation solution set, which combines the concepts of number and space; There is also the study of topological groups, which combines structure and space. Lie groups are used to study space, structure and change.