History of mathematics development:
1, Mathematics (Chinese Pinyin: shùXué；; ; Greek: μ α θ η μ α κ; English: mathematics or maths), whose English comes from the ancient Greek word μθξμα(máthēma), has the meaning of learning, learning and science. Ancient Greek scholars regarded it as the starting point of philosophy and the "foundation of learning".
2. In addition, there is a narrow and technical meaning-"mathematical research". Even in its etymology, its adjective meaning is used to refer to mathematics whenever it is related to learning.
3. Its plural form in English and its plural form in French plus -es constitute mathématiques, which can be traced back to the neutral plural in Latin and translated by Cicero from the Greek plural τ α α θ ι α κ? (ta mathē matiká).
4. In ancient China, mathematics was called arithmetic, also called arithmetic, and finally it was changed to mathematics. Arithmetic in ancient China was one of the six arts (called "number" in the six arts).
5. Mathematics originated from the early production activities of human beings, and ancient Babylonians accumulated certain mathematical knowledge and could apply it to practical problems. As far as mathematics itself is concerned, their mathematical knowledge is only obtained through observation and experience, and there is no comprehensive conclusion and proof, but their contribution to mathematics should also be fully affirmed.
6. The knowledge and application of basic mathematics is an indispensable part of individual and group life. The refinement of its basic concepts can be found in ancient mathematical documents of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and ancient India. Since then, its development has continued to make small progress. But algebra and geometry at that time were still in an independent state for a long time.
7. Algebra can be said to be the most widely accepted "mathematics". It can be said that the first mathematics he came into contact with was algebra since everyone began to learn to count when he was a child. Mathematics is a subject that studies numbers, and algebra is also one of the most important parts of mathematics. Geometry is the earliest branch of mathematics studied by people.
8. Until the Renaissance in16th century, Descartes founded analytic geometry, which linked algebra and geometry which were completely separated at that time. From then on, we can finally prove the theorem of geometry through calculation; At the same time, abstract algebraic equations and trigonometric functions can also be graphically represented. Then more subtle calculus was developed.
9. There are many branches of mathematics at present. The French Bourbaki School, founded in 1930s, believes that mathematics, at least pure mathematics, is a theory to study abstract structures.
10. Structure is a deductive system based on initial concepts and axioms. They think that mathematics has three basic parent structures: algebraic structure (group, ring, field, lattice, …), ordered structure (partial order, total order, …) and topological structure (neighborhood, limit, connectivity, dimension, …).
1 1. Mathematics is applied in many different fields, including science, engineering, medicine and economics. The application of mathematics in these fields is generally called applied mathematics, which sometimes arouses new mathematical discoveries and promotes the development of new mathematical disciplines.
Mathematicians also study pure mathematics, that is, mathematics itself, without any practical application. Although a lot of work started from the study of pure mathematics, it may find a suitable application later.
13 specifically, there are sub-fields to explore the relationship between the core of mathematics and other fields: from logic and set theory (mathematical basis) to empirical mathematics in different sciences (applied mathematics) to more modern uncertainty research (chaotic and fuzzy mathematics). As far as verticality is concerned, the exploration in each field of mathematics is getting deeper and deeper.