A Critical study of the Yang hui suan fa. A XIII-th century Chinesemathematical treatise
Author : Lay Yong Lam
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Lay Yong Lam
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Yang Hui
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 1917
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Author : Lay Yong Lam
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Page : 392 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 1977
Category : 13c
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Author : Lam Lay Yong
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Page : pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : Lay Yong Lam
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Page : 392 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 1977
Category : 13c
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Author : Kangshen Shen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198539360
The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art has been the most important mathematical source in China for the past 2000 years, comparable in significance to Euclid's Elements in the West. The Nine Chapters quickly acquired a distinguished reputation, and was the standard mathematics textbook in China and the surrounding regions until Western science was introduced in about 1600. This volume contains the first complete English translation of the Nine Chapters, together with the illuminating commentary of Liu Hui written in the 3rd century AD and other early century commentaries and further insights provided by the translators. The Nine Chapters contains 246 problems and their solutions, which fall into nine categories that are firmly based on practical needs. There are methods for solving problems in areas such as land measurement, construction, agriculture, commerce, and taxation, while the Chinese commentators provide the algorithms needed to solve the problems, and explanations of how the algorithms work. The translators' commentary provides clear and accessible background material for the Western reader, explanations of technicalities, and notes on the treatment of similar or identical mathematical problems in other countries. This first, full-English translation gives us an idea of the distinctive style and important contributions that have been made by traditional Chinese mathematics.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521315364
Volume 2 contains Volume III and a section of Volume IV, Part 1 of the major series: Mathematics, Astronomy, Meteorology, Geography & map-making, Geology & related sciences, Physics (excluding electricity & magnetism).
Author : Tian Se Ang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 2004-04-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9814483605
The Hindu-Arabic numeral system (1, 2, 3,…) is one of mankind's greatest achievements and one of its most commonly used inventions. How did it originate? Those who have written about the numeral system have hypothesized that it originated in India; however, there is little evidence to support this claim.This book provides considerable evidence to show that the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, despite its commonly accepted name, has its origins in the Chinese rod numeral system. This system was widely used in China from antiquity till the 16th century. It was used by officials, astronomers, traders and others to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and other arithmetic operations, and also used by mathematicians to develop arithmetic and algebra. Based on this system, numerous mathematical treatises were written.Sun Zi suanjing (The Mathematical Classic of Sun Zi), written around 400 AD, is the earliest existing work to have a description of the rod numerals and their operations. With this treatise as a central reference, the first part of the book discusses the development of arithmetic and the beginnings of algebra in ancient China and, on the basis of this knowledge, advances the thesis that the Hindu-Arabic numeral system has its origins in the rod numeral system. Part Two gives a complete translation of Sun Zi suanjing.In this revised edition, Lam Lay Yong has included an edited text of her plenary lecture entitled “Ancient Chinese Mathematics and Its Influence on World Mathematics”, which was delivered at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Beijing 2002, after she received the prestigious Kenneth O. May Medal conferred by the International Commission on the History of Mathematics. This should serve as a useful and easy-to-comprehend introduction to the book.
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Science
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Author : Florence Bretelle-Establet
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9048136768
How do Documents Become Sources? Perspectives from Asia and Science Florence Bretelle-Establet From Documents to Sources in Historiography The present volume develops a specific type of critical analysis of the written documents that have become historians’ sources. For reasons that will be explained later, the history of science in Asia has been taken as a framework. However, the issue addressed is general in scope. It emerged from reflections on a problem that may seem common to historians: why, among the huge mass of written documents available to historians, some have been well studied while others have been dismissed or ignored? The question of historical sources and their (unequal) use in historiography is not new. Which documents have been used and favored as historical sources by historians has been a key historiographical issue that has occupied a large space in the historical production of the last four decades, in France at least.