A Chinese mathematical classic of the third century: the Sea island mathematical manual of Liu Hui

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(86)90024-8zbMath0629.01006OpenAlexW2054724076MaRDI QIDQ1093619

Frank J. Swetz, Ang Tian Se

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(86)90024-8

zbMATH Keywords

determination of distancesland surveying situationspractical trigonometryproto-trigonometryright triangle theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Chinese mathematics (01A25) History of geometry (51-03)

Cites Work

• Ein Vermessungsproblem reist von China nach Paris
• Introduction, translation, and discussion of Chao Chün-ch'ing's Notes to the diagrams of short legs and long legs and of squares and circles
• Chinese interest in right-angled triangles
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