The grand astrologer's platform and ramp: four problems in solid geometry from Wang Xiaotong's `Continuation of ancient mathematics' (7th century AD)

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2012.08.001MaRDI QIDQ1940134zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tina Su-Lyn Lim, Donald Blackmore Wagner

Publication date 5 March 2013

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2012.08.001

zbMATH Keywords

Jigu suanjingWang Xiaotong

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Chinese mathematics (01A25)

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