The influence of ancient writing on mathematics, the influence of ancient Chinese mathematics

Traditional Chinese characters have been invaded by the digital age, and forgetting to write has gradually become a problem.

How do you write the "box" in "mailbox"? The "shooting" of "shooting cucumbers" even forgot? ......Do these many Chinese characters, which you have learned and written countless times in childhood, suddenly present an awkward pause when you hold the pen to the paper?

A few days ago, a report in the Los Angeles Times stirred up a thousand waves, "Because the use of pinyin to send mobile phone text messages and computer typing is replacing the traditional one-stroke Chinese character writing that has existed for thousands of years, more and more Chinese do not remember how to write Chinese characters with a pen." The report also cites the results of a survey conducted by China Youth Daily in April, which showed that 83 percent of 2,072 respondents admitted to having difficulty writing.

Are traditional Chinese characters under the assault of modernization? Forgetting to write has become a problem for the new generation of Chinese? A cultural crisis is even beginning to sprout? The search for answers began with a small summer calligraphy interest class......

Ancient China adopted the method of writing and disseminating bamboo slips as books, which was not conducive to mathematical writing and geometric drawing and argumentation. This objective material condition led to the use of arithmetic methods in ancient China, and the use of written narratives rather than arithmetic expressions to explain mathematical problems. The technical reasons for the operation of the ancient Chinese mathematical model that formed the "literary type".

Words and numbers are twin brothers, and when there are words, numbers appear

a) The Origins and Early Development of China.

According to the record of "Yi Dictionaries": The ancients knotted the rope and ruled, and the saints of later generations changed it to a book deed. There are many counts in the oracle bone inscriptions.

From one to ten, and hundreds, thousands, and ten thousand are special counting characters, with a total of 13 independent symbols, and the counting is written in conjunction script, among which there is a decimal notation, and the largest number appearing is 30,000.

1. Calculation.

Calculation is an ancient Chinese calculation tool, and this calculation method is called calculation. It is impossible to determine the age of the creation of the calculation, but it is certain that the calculation was very common in the Spring and Autumn Period.

There are two ways to count the number with a calculation chip, vertical and horizontal:

When representing a multi-digit number, the decimal value system is adopted, the number of each value is arranged from left to right, and the law of vertical and horizontal is: one vertical and ten horizontal, one hundred and a thousand stiff, a thousand and ten look at each other, ten thousand, a hundred is equivalent, and a vacant space represents zero. Arithmetic establishes good conditions for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and other operations.

In terms of geometry, it is said in the "Historical Records of Xia Benji" that Xia Yu had used drawing and measuring tools such as rules, moments, standards, and ropes when controlling the water, and had already discovered the Pythagorean theorem of "Pythagorean three-strand, four-string five", which is called the Pythagorean theorem in the West. During the Warring States Period, the "Examination of the Gongji" written by the Qi people summarized the specifications of the handicraft technology at that time, included some measurement content, and involved some geometric knowledge, such as the concept of angles.

The contention of a hundred schools of thought during the Warring States period was also promoted.