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Xu Yue was a second-century mathematician, born in Donglai, Shandong province in 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
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)[2] in 1084.[3]
References
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Xu Yue (mathematician)", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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