Learning them all perfectly was required to be a perfect gentleman, or in the Chinese sense, a "Renaissance Man".
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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.
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Zhang Yao'er was described as being well-versed in mathematics, poetry, and the Chu Ci.
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.