Different cultures of computation in seventh century China from the viewpoint of square root extraction

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2015.03.002MaRDI QIDQ5962963zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yiwen Zhu

Publication date 25 February 2016

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2015.03.002

zbMATH Keywords

history of Chinese mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Chinese mathematics (01A25)

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