Generality above Abstraction: The General Expressed in Terms of the Paradigmatic in Mathematics in Ancient China

DOI10.1017/S0269889703000905zbMath1193.01018OpenAlexW2114226318MaRDI QIDQ3525885

Karine Chemla

Publication date: 19 September 2008

Published in: Science in Context (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269889703000905

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Chinese mathematics (01A25)

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Cites Work

• On the need to rewrite the history of Greek mathematics
• An early Chinese derivation of the volume of a pyramid: Liu Hui, third century A.D.
• Extremal projectors in the semi-classical case

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