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'''Xu Yue''' was a second-century mathematician, born in Donglai, [[Shandong]] province in [[People's Republic of China|China]]. Little is known of his life except that he was a student of [[Liu Hong (astronomer)|Liu Hong]], an astronomer and mathematician in second century China, and had frequent discussions with the Astronomer-Royal of the Astronomical Bureau.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Selin|editor-first=Helaine |title= Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures|url= https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789401714167|location= |publisher= Springer|page= |date= |isbn=}}</ref>
'''Xu Yue''' was a second-century mathematician born in [[Donglai Commandery|Donglai]], in present-day [[Shandong]] province, [[People's Republic of China|China]]. Little is known of his life except that he was a student of [[Liu Hong (astronomer)|Liu Hong]], an astronomer, and mathematician in second-century China, and had frequent discussions with the Astronomer-Royal of the Astronomical Bureau.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Selin|editor-first=Helaine |title= Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures|url= https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789401714167|publisher= Springer}}</ref>


== Works ==
== Works ==


Xu Yue wrote a commentary on ''[[The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art|Nine Chapters on Mathematical Art]]'' and a treatise, ''Notes on Traditions of Arithmetic Methods''. The commentary has been lost but the his own work has survived with a commentary form [[Zhen Luan]].
Xu Yue wrote a commentary on ''[[The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art|Nine Chapters on Mathematical Art]]'' and a treatise, ''[[Shushu Jiyi|Notes on Traditions of Arithmetic Methods]]''. The commentary has been lost, but his own work has survived with a commentary from [[Zhen Luan]].


''Notes on Traditions of Arithmetic Methods'' mentions 14 old methods of calculation. This book was a prescribed mathematical text for the Imperial examinations in 656 and became one of ''[[The Ten Computational Canons|The Ten Mathematical Classics]]'' (算经十书)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://baike.baidu.com/link?url=Nji382FlEokkyOeYAy8TOiNmDEptzqFHN-Gb2KmPD4NmES0yd9_S7llF1y9im62RJJT2LQ0tRFC-BlLg-Rmw115tMYez0flakzETzfhCSYUTrQaeoWlzmQ0VKWdKB4pr|title=算经十书|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |website=百度百科|publisher=|access-date=2016-12-27 |quote=}}</ref> in 1084.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Xu_Yue.html |title=Xu Yue |last= |first= |date=2003-12-01 |website=MacTutor History of Mathematics|publisher= |access-date= 2016-12-27|quote=}}</ref>
''Notes on Traditions of Arithmetic Methods'' mentions 14 old methods of calculation. This book was a prescribed mathematical text for the Imperial examinations in 656 and became one of ''[[The Ten Computational Canons|The Ten Mathematical Classics]]'' (算经十书) in 1084.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Xu_Yue.html |title=Xu Yue |date=2003-12-01 |website=MacTutor History of Mathematics|access-date= 2016-12-27}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
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Xu Yue was a second-century mathematician born in Donglai, in present-day Shandong province, China. Little is known of his life except that he was a student of Liu Hong, an astronomer, and mathematician in second-century China, and had frequent discussions with the Astronomer-Royal of the Astronomical Bureau.[1]

Works

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Xu Yue wrote a commentary on Nine Chapters on Mathematical Art and a treatise, Notes on Traditions of Arithmetic Methods. The commentary has been lost, but his own work has survived with a commentary from Zhen Luan.

Notes on Traditions of Arithmetic Methods mentions 14 old methods of calculation. This book was a prescribed mathematical text for the Imperial examinations in 656 and became one of The Ten Mathematical Classics (算经十书) in 1084.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Selin, Helaine (ed.). Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer.
  2. ^ "Xu Yue". MacTutor History of Mathematics. 2003-12-01. Retrieved 2016-12-27.
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