What the ancient Greeks wrote down at random became a lot of articles in the19th century, but it became an annoying cliche in the 20th century. Herodotus (484-425 BC) was the first person who began to guess. He only talks about geometry. He may not be familiar with general mathematical concepts, but he is sensitive to the exact meaning of land survey.

As an anthropologist and social historian, Herodotus pointed out that the geometry of ancient Greece came from ancient Egypt. In ancient Egypt, because the land was flooded every year, people often needed to re-measure the land in order to achieve the purpose of taxation. He also said: The Greeks learned the use of the sundial from the Babylonians and divided the day into 12 hours. Herodotus' discovery was affirmed and praised. It is superficial to speculate that ordinary geometry has a glorious beginning.

Mathematical famous sayings

Foreign figures

Everything counts. Pythagoras

Geometry can't be king. -Euclid

Mathematics is the language that God uses to write the universe. Galileo

I am determined to give up the only abstract geometry. In other words, I don't think about the problems that are only used to practice my thoughts. I did this to study another kind of geometry, that is, geometry aimed at explaining natural phenomena. -Descartes (rene descartes, 1596~ 1650)

Mathematicians try to find a certain order of prime sequence on this day. We have reason to believe that this is a mystery, and the human mind can never penetrate it. -Euler

Some beautiful theorems in mathematics have such characteristics: they are easy to be summarized from facts, but the proofs are extremely profound. Mathematics is the king of science. Gauss