Mathematician:Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham

Mathematician

British scientist and scholar of Chinese history who is best known for writing on the history of Chinese science, technology and mathematics.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 9 December 1900 in London, England
• Died: 24 March 1995 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Publications

• 1959: Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 3: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heaven and the Earth

• 1987: Foreword to Chinese Mathematics: A Concise History (by Li Yan and Du Shiran, translated by John N. Crossley and Anthony W.-C. Lun)

Also known as

Usually referred to as Joseph Needham.