The Suàn shù shū {A figure is presented}, "Writings on reckoning": Rewriting the history of early Chinese mathematics in the light of an excavated manuscript

Historia Mathematica

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-44

  Cullen, Christopher ^a  

^a Needham Research Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; H n dynasty; Ji zh ng su n sh ; Su n sh sh

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846284934     PISSN: 03150860     EISSN: 1090249X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hm.2005.11.006     Document Type: Article

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