The Geometrical Basis of the Ancient Chinese Square-Root Method

DOI10.1086/350581MaRDI QIDQ5619792zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Lay-Yong Lam

Publication date 1970

Published in Isis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1086/350581

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Chinese mathematics (01A25)

Cited in

(6)

• A brief chronological and bibliographic guide to the history of Chinese mathematics
• Methods of solving linear equations in traditional China
• The Chinese connection between the Pascal triangle and the solution of numerical equations of any degree
• Circle measurements in ancient China
• A Neolithic oral tradition for the van der Waerden/Seidenberg origin of mathematics
• Western influence and Chinese tradition in an eighteenth century Chinese mathematical work

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