这是一个令人思索的现象:在现代科学眩目光辉照耀下的人们(特别是青少年),正在渐渐冷落乃至遗弃数学这项一度被誉为科学最美丽的皇冠。美国约翰·韦利出版公司在1996年伊始,推出一本新书,令人“蓦然回首”。《五个黄金定律:二十世纪数学的伟大理论——以及为什么它们重要》的作者约翰 L.卡斯蒂一一描述了本世纪数学理论的五次革命 This is a pessimistic phenomenon: people, especially young people, shining brightly through the modern science are gradually neglecting or even abandoning mathematics, the crown once regarded as the most beautiful science. At the beginning of 1996, the United States John Weili Publishing Company launched a new book, which makes people look back. John L. Castillie, author of The Five Golden Rules: Great Theories of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century - and Why They Matter, describes the five revolutions in mathematical theory of the century