Mathematician:Yang Hui

Mathematician

Chinese mathematician who is best known for an early treatment of Pascal's Triangle (also known as Yang Hui's Triangle), although acknowledging that it was given an earlier treatment by Chia Hsien in a work which is now lost.

Nationality

Chinese

History

• Born: c. 1238, Qiantang (now Hangzhou), Chekiang province, China
• Died: c. 1298, China

Theorems and Definitions

• Yang Hui's Triangle, also known as Pascal's Triangle

Definitions of concepts named for Yang Hui can be found here.

Publications

• 1261: Xiangjie Jiuzhang Suanfa ("Arithmetic in Nine Sections") (in which Yang Hui's Triangle appears)
• c. 1275: Xugu Zhaiqi Suanfa
• c. 1275: Suanfa Tongbian Benmo (算法通变本末)

Also known as

Simplified Chinese: 杨辉

Traditional Chinese: 楊輝

Pinyin: Yáng Huī

Courtesy name Qianguang (谦光)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Yang Hui": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive