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I, II) Second revised German edition, Springer; 1979/1982 (Vol. I, II) Russian translation of 1968/1970, Nauka Publ., Moscow; 2001/2003 (Vol. I, II) French translation, L’Harmattan, Paris; 2011/2013 (Parts A and B of Vol. I, prefaces and sections 1-5) English translation of 1968 and 1934, bilingual with German facsimile on the left-hand sides.
The first reference to a book being used in learning mathematics in China is dated to the second century CE (Hou Hanshu: 24, 862; 35,1207). We are told that Ma Xu, who is a youth c. 110, and Zheng Xuan (127–200) both studied the Nine Chapters on Mathematical procedures. Christopher Cullen claims that mathematics, in a manner akin to medicine ...