The origin and development of mathematics

Like other branches of science, mathematics is an accumulation of intelligence developed through human social practice and production activities under certain social conditions. Its main content reflects the quantitative relationship and spatial form of the real world, as well as the relationship and structure between them. This can be confirmed from the origin of mathematics. The Nile River in ancient Africa, the Tigris River and Euphrates River in West Asia, the Indus River and Ganges River in Central and South Asia, and the Yellow River and Yangtze River in East Asia were the birthplaces of mathematics. Due to the needs of agricultural production, the ancestors in these areas have accumulated long-term practical activities such as controlling floods and irrigation, measuring the area of ​​​​fields, calculating the volume of warehouses, calculating the calendar suitable for agricultural production, and related wealth calculation, product exchange, etc. Rich experience, and gradually formed the corresponding technical knowledge and related mathematical knowledge. Mathematics, its English is mathematics, which is a plural noun, "mathematics used to be four subjects: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music, in a higher status than the three subjects of grammar, rhetoric and dialectics." Math is everywhere in life! So how did mathematics come about? When did it originate? These are difficult questions to answer, because the primitive accumulation of basic mathematical concepts occurred before humans created words to record their thoughts. There are some ancient and magical legends about the origin of mathematics. Legend has it that in very, very distant ancient times, one day, a "dragon horse" suddenly jumped out of the waves of the Yellow River. On the horse's back was a picture with many mysterious mathematical symbols drawn on it. In the Luoshui, another "divine turtle" climbed out, and on the turtle's back was a volume of books, which explained the arrangement of numbers. The picture on the horse's back is called "River Map", and the book on the turtle's back is called "Luo Shu". When the "Hetu Luoshu" appeared, mathematics was born. Mathematics is one of the oldest subjects, its origin can be traced back more than 10,000 years ago. However, very little data from before 1000 AD survives. As far as is known, only comparatively systematic mathematical texts have been found in ancient Egypt and Babylon. As far back as 15,000 years ago, humans have been able to depict people and animals fairly realistically. This is the earliest evidence of the emergence of graphic consciousness. Later, the pursuit of circle and straight line gradually began, which became the earliest prototype of mathematical graphics. In daily life and production practice, counting awareness and counting system have gradually emerged. Human beings have explored various counting methods, starting with knots, counting with stones, and further using symbols for language points, which have gradually developed to today. The numbers we use. Graphical awareness and counting awareness developed to a certain extent, and measurement awareness was produced. This series of development and evolution gradually formed the complete subject of mathematics we are familiar with today, which includes arithmetic, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, calculus, statistics and probability (in fact, it started out for people to study gambling. What about) ... and so on various branches, and it is still developing. See, this is the origin of mathematics and how it developed