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Fleeting footsteps : tracing the conception of arithmetic and algebra in ancient China
- Title
- Fleeting footsteps : tracing the conception of arithmetic and algebra in ancient China / Lam Lay Yong and Ang Tian Se.
- Author
- Lam, Lay Yong.
- Publication
- Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2004.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Ang, Tian Se.
- Description
- xxii, 243 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Sun-tzu suan ching. English.
- Alternative Title
- Tracing the conception of arithmetic and algebra in ancient China.
- Subjects
- Note
- Part two is the translation of Sun Zi suanjing.
- Revised edition includes edited version of plenary lecture given at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Bejing in August 2002 entitled "Ancient Chinese mathematics and its influence on world mathematics."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and index.
- Contents
- Ancient Chinese mathematics and its influence on world mathematics -- pt. 1. The Sun Zi Suanjing (The mathematical classic of Sun Zi) -- Numbers and numerals -- The fundamental operations of arithmetic -- The common fraction -- On extracting roots of numbers -- Tables of measures -- The various problems -- Socioeconomic aspects in Sun Zi's China -- Did the Hindu-Arabic numberal system have its origins in the rod numeral system -- pt. 2. Translation of Sun Zi Suanjing -- Appendix 1. Table of reference for problems of Sun Zi Suanjing -- Appendix 2. Chronology of dynasties.
- Call Number
- JSE 05-550
- ISBN
- 9812386963
- OCLC
- 55859633
- Author
- Lam, Lay Yong.
- Title
- Fleeting footsteps : tracing the conception of arithmetic and algebra in ancient China / Lam Lay Yong and Ang Tian Se.
- Imprint
- Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2004.
- Edition
- Rev. ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and index.
- Added Author
- Ang, Tian Se.
- Added Title
- Sun-tzu suan ching. English.Tracing the conception of arithmetic and algebra in ancient China.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 05-550