数学文化对宇宙观念的影响

Mathematical Culture Impact on Concept of the Universe

纵观西方文明史,数学作为一种文化始终对人类的宇宙观念有着重要的影响。从古希腊开始的数学理性,到中世纪与神学的结合,再到牛顿和爱因斯坦的成功,无不昭示数学理性精神在刻画宇宙结构过程中所起的重要作用。

Throughout the history of Western civilization, mathematics as a culture always has im- portant impact on human concept of the universe. Mathematical rationality from ancient Greece, and the combination with the theology in medieval period, and then to the success of Newton and Ein- stein, it is clear that mathematical rationality played the important spirit by described the structure of the Universe.