中国在清朝后期,闭关锁国,严重阻碍了传统数学的进一步发展,使得我国的数学水平远远落后于西方.华衡芳在国家贫穷落后的情况下,毕生致力于科学与教育事业,翻译介绍了大量的西方数学和自然科学著作,为我国近代工业和科学教育事业作出了开创性的贡献.华衡芳是江苏金匮县(今无锡) In the late Qing Dynasty, when China closed its doors and locked up the country, it seriously hampered the further development of traditional mathematics and made China’s mathematics level lag far behind the West. Hua Hengfang devoted his life to science and education in the country’s poverty and backwardness. The Western mathematics and natural sciences books have made a pioneering contribution to China’s modern industrial and scientific education. Hua Hengfang is a county in Jiangsu Jinxi County (now Wuxi)