说起20世纪的科普大师,稳坐第一把交椅的人无疑是原籍俄罗斯,后来定居美国,提出“机器人三原则”的艾萨克·阿西莫夫先生了。他一生写过三百多部科普作品,其中也有专门谈论数学的著作。阿西莫夫具有真知灼见,他有许多观点远远走在时代的前面。譬如说,他认为数可以分为两大类,一类是有趣的数(例如圆周率π,黄金分割数φ,以及本文将要谈到的1001等等),另一类是无精打采的数,当然后者占了绝大多数。 Speaking of masters of popular science in the 20th century, the man who sat in the first place was undoubtedly a Russian of origin, and later settled in the United States, and made Isaac Asimov, who proposed the “three principles of robotics.” He wrote more than 300 popular science works throughout his life, and there are books devoted to mathematics. Asimov has insights. He has many opinions that go far ahead of the times. For example, he believes that numbers can be divided into two major categories. One is interesting numbers (such as pi, golden number φ, and 1001, etc.) and the other is listless numbers. The vast majority of people.