Suan Shu Shu. A book on numbers and computations. Translated from the Chinese and with commentary by Joseph W. Dauben.

DOI10.1007/s00407-007-0124-1zbMath1153.01004OpenAlexW2768319098WikidataQ61772550 ScholiaQ61772550MaRDI QIDQ2425816

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Publication date: 7 May 2008

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-007-0124-1

zbMATH Keywords

bamboo stripsNine chaptersSuanshu shuWestern Han dynastyZhangjiashan

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) History of Chinese mathematics (01A25) History and biography (01-XX)

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• The Chinese connection between the Pascal triangle and the solution of numerical equations of any degree
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• Zhang Qiujian suanjing (The mathematical classic of Zhang Qiujian): An overview
• Generality above Abstraction: The General Expressed in Terms of the Paradigmatic in Mathematics in Ancient China
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