Trigonometric tables: explicating their construction principles in China

DOI10.1007/S00407-015-0162-ZMaRDI QIDQ500307zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jiang-Ping Jeff Chen

Publication date 2 October 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-015-0162-z

zbMATH Keywords

trigonometric tablesQing dynasty

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Chinese mathematics (01A25)

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