中国古代数学的辉煌与衰落（The brilliance and decline of Chinese Ancient Mathematics）.docVIP

中国古代数学的辉煌与衰落（The brilliance and decline of Chinese Ancient Mathematics） The twenty-ninth volume first issue of Journal of Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (NATURAL SCIENCE EDITION) Vol.29 No.12001 R.of N o rthw February Jou EST Sci2T ECH U n iv.of A gri.and Fo R. (N a.tSc.iEd.) Feb.2001 Chinese brilliant ancient mathematics and the decline of alpha Wang Naixin 1, Xu Ruifeng 1, Fu Xianghua 2 (1 Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University College of life science; 2 School of mechanical and electrical engineering Shaanxi, Yangling 712100) [Abstract] China brilliant period of ancient mathematics three: nine chapters of arithmetic period , book zhuishu period, the number of the nine chapter period. There are three reasons for the decline of ancient mathematics China: Confucianism, defy logic, despise mathematical knowledge; advocate metaphysics, astrological superstition, distorted mathematical thinking; mathematical symbols in refusing to rest on its laurels. [Key words] Chinese history of mathematics; the nine chapter arithmetic; zhuishu; number nine [CLC] O [112] A[documentcode Article No.]100022782 (2001) 0120110205 British scholar Joseph Needham (Joseph N eedham) (1900 ~ 1995) once with this question of Chinese science and civilization from ancient times to the long years of the fifteenth Century, Chinese in the application of natural knowledge to meet the needs of people who is better than Europeans, why not in the modern scientific revolution China? What is the reason behind the western science Chinese nearly hundreds of years? This question, people called Joseph Needham (N eedham Thesis). This study analyzes the history of Chinese ancient mathematics, analyzes Joseph Needhams proposition, and tries to find the reasons for the decline of Chinese mathematics. 1, the rise and fall of ancient Chinese mathematics, several thousand years, Chinese mathematics has been several glorious, several times decline, in the past few hundred years, far behind the w