On Hypotenuse Diagrams in Ancient China

DOI10.1111/J.1600-0498.1997.TB00031.XMaRDI QIDQ4345006zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors An-jing Qu

Publication date 19 January 1998

Published in Centaurus (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1997.tb00031.x

zbMATH Keywords

Pythagorean theoremZhoubi suanjing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Chinese mathematics (01A25)

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