Mathematics Culture And Modern Civilization

Mathematics culture and modern civilizationWhen it comes to human civilization, people always think about the political, economic, history, literature, art, astronomy, geography and other aspects. Mathematics, however, as the foundation of human civilization, has been emerged and developed with human civilization all the time, which plays an important role in cultural progressing.The word "culture" has appeared in ancient China earlier than the west, but it was not clear enough until nineteenth Century. The Philosophy Dictionary define the General Culture as the summary of material wealth and spiritual wealth that created by human in the process of social and history, while Culture refers to the social ideology and all sorts of rules and regulations, customs, academic thought, religious organizations and literature and art. Culture have developed along with the human society in the help of language and text. Mathematics helped for human being to understand the world and transform the world thinking tools, way of thinking and rational spirit, so that mathematics is also a kind of culture, but also is a kind of advanced culture, mathematics culture development footprint is accompanied by the development track of human history, so it has witnessed the human civilization development.In the 60 s of 20 th century, western scholars have came up with the view of Mathematical culture that mathematics developed with the interaction of the internal forces and external forces and changing cultural system of development, in the 1990 s at the end of our country scholars also began to focus on mathematics from the angle of culture, and to emphasize the cultural value of Mathematics. According to the mathematical cultural connotation of the different focus, can give different understanding of mathematics culture. Culture has broad sense, the corresponding mathematical culture also has broad narrow understanding. The narrow mathematical culture is refers to mathematics thought, spirit, method, idea, language, and their formation and development process, generalized also includes the relationship between mathematicians, mathematics history, beauty of mathematics, mathematics education, mathematics and culture. Mathematics culture has many characteristics, the definition of mathematical culture is given in the paper, on mathematics culture tradition, abstract, philosophy, aesthetics, osmotic, development, artistic and interesting are mainly introduced in this paper, understand these characteristics to further deepen the understanding and understanding of mathematical culture.Under the impact of the economic system, geographical environment, cultural differences in the mode of thinking, the concept of democracy, science, ethics and legal concept, education etc.. Ancient Greek attached considerable importance to mathematics, legend did not understand the geometry is not enter the Academy of Plato’s, but in ancient China, advocating poetry, playing chess or understand the point of eight shares the is considered culture, have the taste of people and mathematics is only by merchant account, life fortune teller count will be used. Throughout the development of China ancient mathematics, practical thought, the algorithm has been running through the. Effect of "arithmetic in nine sections" of the development of the ancient Chinese mathematics, from the Sui and Tang Dynasties until in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, the knowledge almost all come from the "arithmetic in nine sections" and its extended version. "Arithmetic in nine sections" written with Greek Euclid "geometry originally" written in a way there is a world of difference, "geometry originally" is from the justice, and theorem of, by way of proof established deductive system of mathematics, and "arithmetic in nine sections" is from the problem, to solve the problem and establish a mechanical system of mathematics. It also reflects the characteristics of ancient Chinese mathematics practical and weight calculation.Chinese culture has undergone a pretty long history, the legislator in the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period of China, such as Confucianism, Taoism, three schools, especially Confucianism, culture of our country great influence. The Confucian "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, the letter" world outlook for pandering to the wishes of the feudal rulers and respected, triggered by the conception of the despised science and despise art thought also on later caused profound influence, has our government, the education sector and a large part of the people do not attach importance to the study of mathematics, can be said to Confucianism and block the development of mathematics in ancient China. And ancient Greek mathematics such as philosophy is generally much people’s attention, in the whole culture system plays an important role, which gave birth to the rational spirit, not only to the western culture made an indelible contribution, also brought huge impact to the process of the civilization of human being. Confucianism advocates of ancient worship, to the exclusion of new ideas, new ideas, when the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, western mathematics was introduced into our country, our country most mathematicians but focus on the ancient mathematics book, do not accept Western ideas of mathematical culture, coupled with the Qing government for the decay and closed door policy, western mathematics culture shut out, caused by disconnection of mathematics culture in China and Western mathematics culture, also makes the mathematics education in China lags far behind in western mathematics education, which will undoubtedly cause the backward of science and technology in our country. And have made outstanding contributions to the fusion of Chinese and Western mathematics culture devaluation of the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci, he put the "geometric original" and non Euclidean geometry, the introduction, the Chinese ancient Confucianism, mathematical ideas and mathematical methods of transmission to the western, so as to promote the exchange of Chinese and Western culture, and promote the development of human civilization.Without mathematics, there are no modern civilization because mathematics culture owns an irreplaceable position. This paper mainly discussed it from two aspects, the calculus era and a computer era. In 17 th and 18 th Century, the human civilization important treasure of analytic geometry and calculus on the stage of history, mathematics reached unprecedented prosperity, ushered in a "hero of the century". Their invention, though the theory is not mature, especially the foundation of calculus is not very firm, but does not affect its application and popularization. Calculus as a new force, promote the human history of the revolution of science and technology. Watt took "calculus", this is the scientific key to open the door of the industrial revolution, the invention and use of a steam engine directly to the human society into the "age of steam"; 19 th century knowledge of calculus and electromagnetic theories, Maxwell’s electromagnetic wave so that the electrical into the our life. The first computer was born in twentieth Century, has become an important milepost in the history of human civilization. Computer by virtue of mathematical the behind the scenes hero with unimaginable speed, of course, the computer’s powerful calculation function also let mathematics unleashed, let mathematics than at any time in the past more deterrent and penetration. The Internet era, is to turn the world upside down occurrence of changes in people’s lives, let the human progress in science and technology reached unprecedented stage. It can be said, the process of the whole human society, all without exception shows mathematics in understanding and transform the world contains enormous vitality, mathematics culture affects the process of human civilization, rewrite the history of mankind, but also changed the human way of thinking and cognitive level, and promote the progress of human society.Today we are moving towards the information society, which means the era of high technology with its essential part, mathematics. In fact, we have been in the process of human civilization not consciously enjoying the bounty of the mathematical culture, but the importance of mathematical culture lack a systematic and rational understanding, which is bound to affect the mathematics now and in the future development, the indirect slow the pace of human society to a higher level and more advanced civilization society forward, it is worth in today’s society each member seriously thinking and should pay enough attention to it.State economy and national quality are closely related to the institutions of humanities quality, and mathematics literacy is of highly important. From colleges and universities in China have organized and planned implementation of cultural quality education, has been more than 20 years, "quality education" of the word has become a core topic of our educational ideas implanted the educators of heart. Zhou Yuanqing had evaluation of cultural quality education of college students is "topicality, conform to the trend, involving the fundamental", and the course of mathematics culture opened the 12 words to describe the suspicion is no exaggeration. Finally, the paper talks about the creation of mathematics culture courses in Chinese colleges and universities. The educational value of mathematics culture has been recognized by more and more educators, but it is not enough to satisfy the elective course of mathematics and culture. In order to improve students’ mathematical literacy, and then improve the cultural quality of the whole people, so that the voice of mathematical culture into the classroom is getting higher and higher. How in the teaching effectively into mathematical culture is put in front of the teacher, and local colleges and in the popular personnel training occupies a main force. Therefore, we opened in the local colleges and universities in the course of mathematics culture made some discussion, hoping to "cast a brick to attract jade" like the old Chinese saying goes.