Zhu Shijie - Suanxue Qimeng

Suanxue Qimeng

Suanxue qimeng written in 1299, is an elementary textbook on mathematics in three volumes, 20 chapters and 259 problems. This book also showed how to measure different two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional solids. The Introduction had an important influence on the development of mathematics in Japan. The book was once lost in China until Qing dynasty mathematician Luo Shilin bought a Korean printed edition, and re published in Yangzhou, since then this book was reprinted several times.

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