Mathematical geology sprouted at the beginning of19th century. 1833, C. Layle of Britain divided the Tertiary strata of the Paris Basin for the first time through statistical analysis. Before 1920, sedimentologists and paleontologists used descriptive statistics to summarize and interpret their data. Since 1930s, the application fields of univariate and bivariate statistical analysis have been extended to mining and geological exploration. Since 1950s, electronic computers and multivariate statistical methods have been introduced into geology. 1949, B.H. Berma published the paper Multivariate Analysis-A New Analytical Tool in Geology and Paleontology. In 1956, W.C. Krumbein of the United States regarded rock composition as a point or vector in N-dimensional space, and studied the mineral, lithology and chemical composition of rocks by multivariate analysis. 1958 Krumbein and L.L. sloss jointly published the first computer geological application program. In the early 1960s, G. Martron, a Frenchman, put forward the theory of regionalized variables based on the work of D. G. Krieger, a South African, and founded geostatistics. 1964 The number of papers on computer geology application exceeds 100. 1967, the International Union of Geological Sciences (ICSU) established the Committee for Geological Data Storage, Automatic Processing and Retrieval (COGEODATA), and 1968, the International Association of Mathematical Geology (IAMG) was established. Since 1970s, countries all over the world have attached great importance to the evaluation of mineral resources. The International Geological Correlation Program (IGCP) has set up the subject of standardization of computer application in mineral resources evaluation, and summarized and popularized six quantitative prediction methods. Since then, a series of monographs on mathematical geology have been published, such as Statistical Analysis of Geological Data by Kirk and Link, Geological Mathematics by Berg and Statistical Prediction of Mineral Deposits by Zhao. By 1978, the number of papers on mathematical geology exceeded 1000, indicating that mathematical geology has developed rapidly.