Chinese Scholars’ Achievements and Contributions to the Development of Mathematical Geosciences
During the past forty years, in the mathematical geology domains, such as mineral resource quantitative assessment and nonlinear theory and their application in ore geology and mineral exploration, Chinese scholars have developed new theories and new methods which have advanced the relevant subjects. For example, the theory of geological anomaly quantitative prediction and mineral resource assessment, the theory of “three components” digital ore-finding, the idea of comprehensive information for mineral prognosis, the theory of mineral deposit growth at the edge of chaos, the multifractal theories and nonlinear information extraction and integration methods, such as concentration-area model (CA) and spectrum-area model (S-A), the model of fuzzy weight of evidence, and etc.. All these have not only advanced geomathematics but also provided new ways of applying geomathematical methods in mineral prospecting, environment and geological disaster predicting.