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Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art Companion & Commentary

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York Oxford University Press 1999Description: xiv,596 pISBN:
  • 0198539363 (HB)
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Contents:
Liu Hui's Preface to his Running Commentary on the Nine Chapters 1. Field Measurement 2. Millet and Rice 3. Distribution by Proportion 4. Short Width 5. Construction Consultations 6. Fair Levies 7. Excess and Deficit 8. Rectangular Arrays 9. Right-angled Triangles 10. Sea Island Mathematical Manual Afterword / Shen Kangshen
Summary: "The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art is a classic text: the most important mathematical source in China during the past 2000 years, and comparable in significance to Euclid's Elements in the West. This volume contains the first complete English translation of the Nine Chapters, together with two commentaries written in the 3rd century (by Liu Hui) and 7th century AD, and a further commentary by the translators."--Jacket
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Liu Hui's Preface to his Running Commentary on the Nine Chapters
1. Field Measurement
2. Millet and Rice
3. Distribution by Proportion
4. Short Width
5. Construction Consultations
6. Fair Levies
7. Excess and Deficit
8. Rectangular Arrays
9. Right-angled Triangles
10. Sea Island Mathematical Manual
Afterword / Shen Kangshen

"The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art is a classic text: the most important mathematical source in China during the past 2000 years, and comparable in significance to Euclid's Elements in the West. This volume contains the first complete English translation of the Nine Chapters, together with two commentaries written in the 3rd century (by Liu Hui) and 7th century AD, and a further commentary by the translators."--Jacket

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