Mathematician:Zu Chongzhi

Mathematician
Prominent Chinese mathematician and astronomer.

Derived the most accurate approximation for $\pi$ for over nine hundred years.

Credited (along with ) with proving the volume of the sphere using the same principle as.

Father of.

Nationality
Chinese

History

 * Born: 429, Jiankang, (now Nanking, Kiangsu province), China
 * Died: 501, China

Theorems and Definitions

 * The Zu Chongzhi Fraction $\dfrac {355} {113}$ for pi.

Writings

 * Zhui Shu ("Method of Interpolation") (now lost)

Also known as

 * Simplified Chinese: 祖冲之
 * Traditional Chinese: 祖冲之
 * Pinyin: Zǔ Chōngzhī
 * Wade–Giles: Tsu Ch'ung-chih
 * Courtesy name Wenyuan (文遠)