Practices of reasoning: persuasion and refutation in a seventeenth-century Chinese mathematical treatise of “linear algebra”

DOI10.1017/S0269889720000125MaRDI QIDQ6038557zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jiang-Ping Jeff Chen

Publication date 2 May 2023

Published in Science in Context (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269889720000125

zbMATH Keywords

\textit{fangcheng}epistemological valueslinear algebrareasoningseventeenth century

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Chinese mathematics (01A25) History of linear algebra (15-03)

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