History of Chinese Mathematics.pdf

Martzloff A History of Chinese Mathematics
From the July 1877 issue of the Gezhi huibian
(The Chinese scientific and industrial magazine)
Jean-Claude Martdoff
A HISTORY OF
Chinese Mathematics
With Forewords by
Jaques and Jean Dhombres
With 185 Figures
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Title of the French original edition:
Histoire des mathe'matiques chinoises. O Masson, Paris 1987
Cover Figure: After an engraving taken from the Zhiming suanfa (Clearly putational
[arithmetical] methods). This popular book, edited by a certain Wang Ren'an at the end of the
Qing dynasty, is widely influenced by Cheng Dawei's famous Suanfa longzong (General source of
computational methods)(195z).Cf. Kodama Akihito (z'), 1970,pp. 46-52.
The reproductions of the Stein 930 manuscript and a page of a Manchu manuscript preserved at the
Bibliotheque Nationale (Fonds Mandchou no. 191) were made possible by the kind permission of the
British Library (India Office and records) and the Bibliothkque Nationale, respectively. For this we
express our sincere thanks.
Corrected second printing of the first English edition of 1997, originally published by Springer-Verlag
under the ISBN 3-540-54749-5
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006927803
ISBN-10 3-540-33782-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
ISBN-13 978-3-540-33782-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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