Xu Yue (mathematician)

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 the his own work has survived with a commentary form 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

^ Selin, Helaine (ed.). Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer.
^ "算经十书". 百度百科. Retrieved 2016-12-27.
^ "Xu Yue". MacTutor History of Mathematics. 2003-12-01. Retrieved 2016-12-27.

External links

O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Xu Yue (mathematician)", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews

[1] Selin, Helaine (ed.). Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer.

[2] "算经十书". 百度百科. Retrieved 2016-12-27.

[3] "Xu Yue". MacTutor History of Mathematics. 2003-12-01. Retrieved 2016-12-27.

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