2009 Volume 50 Issue 1-2 Pages 1-4
Recently, it seems that people like to know the solution soon, but in the classroom it is rather important to understand how to reach the solution. In this respect, school teachers of mathematics should have their own attitude to mathematics as a meaningful part of science, and it is also worthy for students of teacher's college to follow the theories established by excellent mathematicians in the far past. In this paper we pay attention to the great achievements due to Archimedes and Fourier. The former established a thought method, which is a basis of modern sciences, in the time of the Greek, and the latter contributed greatly in the 18th century to the development of the modern mathematics. In this paper we recommend for teachers and students of mathematics to learn a lot of things from Archimedes and Fourier, since they were standard bearers of scientific ideas in the respective periods.
