The first Chinese translation of the last nine books of Euclid's \textit{Elements} and its source

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2003.12.002zbMath1077.01003OpenAlexW2059427021MaRDI QIDQ1776881

Yibao Xu

Publication date: 12 May 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2003.12.002

zbMATH Keywords

ChinaEuclidElementsIsaac BarrowLi ShanlanAlexander WylieHenry Billingsley

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of Chinese mathematics (01A25)

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