“几何”在汉语里是“多少”的意思,因而不可望文生义,说几何学就是专门研究“多少”的数学,不过,几何学名词的由来又确确实实与“多少”有点儿关系,我国古代数学问题总有“问……几何?”的话,所以欧几里得巨著《原本》的第一个中译者明朝科学家徐光启就把此书称 “Geometry” means “how many” in Chinese, and therefore cannot be considered as literal or literary. Geometry is the mathematics that specializes in “how much” mathematics. However, the origin of geometric nouns is indeed related to “how much”, in ancient China. The question of mathematics always has “ask...geometry?”, so Xu Guangqi, the first Chinese translator of Euclid’s masterpiece “Original,” called this book