The Geometrical Basis of the Ancient Chinese Square-Root Method

DOI10.1086/350581zbMATH Open0216.28401OpenAlexW2077518642WikidataQ61772551 ScholiaQ61772551MaRDI QIDQ5619792FDOQ5619792

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)

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

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