On Western Mathematicians Chance To Ask The Inevitable Uncertainty In Seeking To Determine The Early Exploration

Classical probability' thought is a philosophical searching by western mathematics in order to find inevitability from chanciness and certainty from uncertainty, since the civilization of the renaissance to the French Revolution. This article studies the process of the classical probability' thought from the stages of budding developing and forming, and the process is divided into several periods according to the common law of thing' developing and mathematics own feature. Through this several periods, we have grasped essential developing features of classic probability' thought and method in different periods. Studies show equal possibility of event or equal opportunity is the essential feature of the classical probability' thought, all formulas and theorems of classical probability are specific forms of this essential features. Understanding and searching for inevitability and certainty show western mathematics' care for man' future and fate during the upward-period of capitalism;and points out equal opportunity included in the classic probability' thought is the common humanistic values. This article also briefs classical probability' spread in modern china, we first discuss different thinking of finding certainty from uncertainty in west and china in philosophy and mathematical culture, and points out the Chinese like using divination and the west like using random experiment. Thus we think different humanistic values in west and china is the main reason for creating two different thought and method in finding certainty from uncertainty, in other word the Chinese are fond of honest and the west like equal opportunity in social life.