出席美国1998年科学年会的科学家和教育学家认为,在20世纪末高新技术发展的过程中,几何学原理得到了空前的应用,21世纪的教育应当把几何学放在头等重要的地位。 加州硅谷的专家德尔·马克斯韦尔和约克大学数学系的约塞夫·马尔克维奇博士在“21世纪的教育:几何学万岁”的 The scientists and educators attending the 1998 Science Annual Conference in the United States believe that the principles of geometry have been applied unprecedentedly in the development of high and new technology at the end of the 20th century and that education in the 21st century should place geometry as a paramount importance. Delphi Maxwell, an expert in Silicon Valley, California, and Dr. Joseph S. Markovich, a mathematics student at York University, in “Education in the 21st Century: Long Live Geometry”