十七世纪是近代数学萌生和初步发展的时期,经过文艺复兴、启蒙运动思潮的洗礼,哲学、宗教、科学等领域涌现出各种思潮,由此人们对数学的认识也发生了重大的变化,将其视为研究哲学真理的方法、揭示上帝设计自然的奥秘和研究自然科学的工具,这种看法极大地影响了当时数学的发展。
The 17th century was a period of the emergence and development of Modern Mathematics. Under the influence of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, philosophy, religion, science and other fields developed rapidly. People had a lot of new ideas about mathematics, and treated it as a way to study the philosophy of truth, a tool to study the natural sciences. The views greatly influenced the development of mathematics at that time.