Book:Yang Hui/Xugu Zhaiqi Suanfa/Mistake

Source Work

 * The Puzzles:
 * Sun Tsu Suan-Ching
 * Sun Tsu Suan-Ching

Mistake

 * Yang Hui (c. $1270$ ) wrote an 'Arithmetic in Nine Sections', which contains the very first extant representation of what we in the West call Pascal's Triangle (from an earlier Chinese source, c. $1000$ ). His book was called, apparently, Hsu Ku Chai Chi Suan Fa ($1275$). It contains the following magic configuration: ...

Correction
The book Hsu Ku Chai Chi Suan Fa (that is, ) is not the same work as the one containing Pascal's Triangle, which was, an earlier work published in $1261$.

focused mainly on magic squares and similar such arrangements.