Why did Liu Hui fail to derive the volume of a sphere?

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(91)90391-AzbMath0742.01002MaRDI QIDQ1176145

Daiwie Fu

Publication date: 25 June 1992

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

zbMATH Keywords

Xu YourenChinese geometrygeometric heuristicvolume of a sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Cites Work

• Cavalieri's method of indivisibles
• The Chinese concept of Cavalieri's principle and its applications
• An early Chinese derivation of the volume of a pyramid: Liu Hui, third century A.D.
• Descartes and the Geometrization of Algebra
• The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
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