On mathematical problems as historically determined artifacts: Reflections inspired by sources from ancient China

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2008.11.005zbMath1182.01004OpenAlexW1974033616MaRDI QIDQ833305

Karine Chemla

Publication date: 12 August 2009

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2008.11.005

zbMATH Keywords

Jiuzhang suanshuLiu HuiChinese mathematical problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) History of Chinese mathematics (01A25) Historiography (01A85) History and biography (01-XX)

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• The Suàn shù shū, ``writings on reckoning: rewriting the history of early Chinese mathematics in the light of an excavated manuscript
• An early Chinese derivation of the volume of a pyramid: Liu Hui, third century A.D.
• Generality above Abstraction: The General Expressed in Terms of the Paradigmatic in Mathematics in Ancient China
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