Book:Anonymous/Chiu Chang Suann Jing

Anonymous: Chiu Chang Suann Jing

Published $\text {c. $100$}$.
In English:

Nine Chapters of Arithmetic

Subject Matter

The oldest surviving Chinese text on mathematics.

Contents

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Also known as

The name Chiu Chang Suann Jing can be variously transliterated, for example:

Jiuzhang suanshu

Jiuzhang Suanjing

Some sources refer to it as just Chiu Chang.

It is translated variously as:

Nine Chapters of Arithmetic

Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art

and so on.

Hence it is often popularly referred to as (the) Nine Chapters.

Also see

• Chiu Chang Suann Jing/Examples

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
• 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $3$: Notations and Numbers: Brahmagupta, Mahavira and Bhaskara