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2 unusual facts about Chinese mathematics


Chinese mathematics

Learning them all perfectly was required to be a perfect gentleman, or in the Chinese sense, a "Renaissance Man".

The table of sines by the Indian mathematician, Aryabhata, were translated into the Chinese mathematical book of the Kaiyuan Zhanjing, compiled in 718 AD during the Tang Dynasty.


Empress Zhang Yao'er

Zhang Yao'er was described as being well-versed in mathematics, poetry, and the Chu Ci.


see also

Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections

in 1971 Belgian sinologist Ulrich Libbrecht published his doctorate dissertation, Chinese Mathematics in the Thirteenth Century, which earned him a degree cum laude at Leiden University.