On mathematical problems as historically determined artifacts: Reflections inspired by sources from ancient China
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Publication:833305
DOI10.1016/J.HM.2008.11.005zbMath1182.01004OpenAlexW1974033616MaRDI QIDQ833305
Publication date: 12 August 2009
Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2008.11.005
History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) History of Chinese mathematics (01A25) Historiography (01A85) History and biography (01-XX)
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- An early Chinese derivation of the volume of a pyramid: Liu Hui, third century A.D.
- Generality above Abstraction: The General Expressed in Terms of the Paradigmatic in Mathematics in Ancient China
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