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The full title of The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art appears on two bronze standard measures which are dated to 179 CE, but there is speculation that the same book existed beforehand under different titles. [1] The title is also mentioned in volume 24 of the Book of the Later Han as one of the books studied by Ma Xu (馬續).
Liu Hui (fl. 3rd century CE) was a Chinese mathematician who published a commentary in 263 CE on Jiu Zhang Suan Shu (The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art). [2] He was a descendant of the Marquis of Zixiang of the Eastern Han dynasty and lived in the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period (220–280 CE) of China.
The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art take these basic operations for granted and simply instruct the reader to perform them. [20] Han mathematicians calculated square and cube roots in a similar manner as division, and problems on division and root extraction both occur in Chapter Four of The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art. [27]
Fangcheng (sometimes written as fang-cheng or fang cheng) (Chinese: 方程; pinyin: fāngchéng) is the title of the eighth chapter of the Chinese mathematical classic Jiuzhang suanshu (The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art) composed by several generations of scholars who flourished during the period from the 10th to the 2nd century BC ...
The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, first compiled in 179 AD, with added commentary in the 3rd century by Liu Hui Haidao Suanjing, Liu Hui, 3rd century. The first definitive work (or at least oldest existent) on geometry in China was the Mo Jing, the Mohist canon of the early philosopher Mozi (470–390 BC).
Li Shanlan (李善蘭, courtesy name: Renshu 壬叔, art name: Qiuren 秋紉) (1810 – 1882) was a Chinese mathematician of the Qing Dynasty. A native of Haining, Zhejiang, he was fascinated by mathematics since childhood, beginning with the Nine Chapters on Mathematical Art.
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The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art (10th–2nd century BCE) Contains the earliest description of Gaussian elimination for solving system of linear equations, it also contains method for finding square root and cubic root.