Book:Anonymous/Chiu Chang Suann Jing
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Anonymous: Chiu Chang Suann Jing
Published $\text {c. $100$}$
In English:
- Nine Chapters of Arithmetic, or The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
Subject Matter
The oldest surviving Chinese text on mathematics.
- Applications of Pythagoras' Theorem
- Rules for extracting square roots and cube roots
- Methods of solution of simultaneous linear equations using techniques similar to Gaussian elimination
Contents
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Also known as
The name Chiu Chang Suann Jing can be variously transliterated, for example:
Some sources refer to it as just Chiu Chang.
It is translated variously as:
and so on.
Hence it is often popularly referred to as (the) Nine Chapters.
Also see
Historical Note
Chiu Chang Suann Jing was written by several generations of Chinese scholars dating from the $10$th century BCE through to the $2$nd or $3$rd century CE.
Sources
- 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): The Nine Chapters
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chiu-chang Suan-shu
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Jiuzhang Suanjing (Chiu-chang Suann-shu)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chiu-chang Suan-shu
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Jiuzhang Suanjing (Chiu-chang Suann-shu)
- 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $3$: Notations and Numbers: Brahmagupta, Mahavira and Bhaskara