Category: Chinese mathematics

* Chinese Remainder Theorem, in mathematics

* The The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, a mathematics Chinese book composed by several generations scholars of Han Dynasty.

Modern engineering as it is understood today took form during the scientific revolution, though much of the mathematics and science was built on the work of the Greeks, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Chinese, Indians and Muslims.

There is also some numerical mysticism in Chinese mathematics, but, unlike that of the Pythagoreans, it seems to have

Ottoman science and technology had been highly regarded in medieval times, as a result of Ottoman scholars ' synthesis of classical learning with Islamic philosophy and mathematics, and knowledge of such Chinese advances in technology as gunpowder and the magnetic compass.

Chinese international students tend to gravitate towards technical majors that involve heavy use of mathematics and the natural sciences.

Magic squares were known to Chinese mathematicians, as early as 650 BCE and Arab mathematicians, possibly as early as the 7th century, when the Arabs conquered northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent and learned Indian mathematics and astronomy, including other aspects of combinatorial mathematics.

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Although widely blamed for causing national disunity and losing the country later to the Chinese Ming Dynasty, Hồ Quý Ly's reign actually introduced a lot of progressive, ambitious reforms, including the addition of mathematics to the national examinations, the open critique of Confucian philosophy, the use of paper currency in place of coins, investment in building large warships and cannon, and land reform.

Most scholars argue about his complexity since traditionally the Chinese had developed mathematics as algebraic and equational.

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In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, the Chinese postman problem ( CPP ), postman tour or route inspection problem is to find a shortest closed path or circuit that visits every edge of a ( connected ) undirected graph.

According to Elvin, Chinese knowledge of science, mathematics, and engineering in the 14th century was far more advanced than anywhere else in the world.

This focus on memorization can be seen in the consistency in which Chinese students excel in mathematics and sciences ( Wang 4-8 ).

English words for mathematics typically have Greek and Latin roots, while corresponding Chinese words are usually translations of neologisms from Western languages ; thus quadrilateral ( from Latin quadri-" four " and latus " sided ") is generally less informative than Chinese sibianxing 四邊形 ( literally, " four-side-shape ").

In 263, he edited and published a book with solutions to mathematical problems presented in the famous Chinese book of mathematics known as The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art ( 九章算术 ).

The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art () is a Chinese mathematics book, composed by several generations of scholars from the 10th – 2nd century BCE, its latest stage being from the 1st century CE.

Most scholars believe that Chinese mathematics and the mathematics of the ancient Mediterranean world had developed more or less independently up to the time when the Nine Chapters reached its final form.

The Suàn shù shū ( 算數書 ) or writings on reckoning is an ancient Chinese text on mathematics approximately seven thousand characters in length, written on 190 bamboo strips.

The Italy | Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci ( left ) and the Chinese mathematics | Chinese mathematician Xu Guangqi ( right ) published the Chinese language | Chinese edition of Euclid's Elements ( 幾何原本 ) in 1607.

Two binary abaci constructed by Dr. Robert C. Good, Jr., made from two Chinese abaci

" However, Costas ' comments were made subsequent to the suspension of Chinese coach Zhou Ming after seven of his swimmers were caught using steroids in 1994.

Each tile pattern in the Chinese domino set is made up of the outcome of a throw of two six-sided dice.

Most Chinese regard Hui Halal food as cleaner than food made by non Muslims so their restaurants are popular in China.

To cater to this type of customer, as well as full-time vegetarians, the menu of a Buddhist vegetarian restaurant usually shows no difference from a typical Chinese or far-Eastern restaurant, except that in recipes originally made to contain meat, a chicken flavoured soy or wheat gluten might be served instead.

On 27 November 2007 Cessna announced the new Cessna 162 would be made in the People's Republic of China by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, which is a subsidiary of China Aviation Industry Corporation I ( AVIC I ), a Chinese government-owned consortium of aircraft manufacturers.

Chinese candies and sweets, called táng are usually made with cane sugar, malt sugar, honey, nuts and fruit.

Chinese herb tea, also known as medicinal herbal tea, is a kind of tea-soup made from purely Chinese medicinal herbs.

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Efforts were made towards improving education standards ; and, in an effort to unify Chinese society, the New Life Movement was launched to encourage Confucian moral values and personal discipline.

Chinese historiography refers to the study of methods and assumptions made in studying Chinese history.

Instead, early 21st century papers on Chinese history tend to be empirical studies of a small part of China which aim to reach a deep understanding of the socio-economics, political dynamics, or cultural dynamics of a small region such as a province or a village with little effort made to create a master narrative which would be generalizable to all of China.

The earliest known Chinese metal tokens were made ca.

The western labor teams were primarily made up of Chinese emigrant workers with up to 12, 000 such laborers employed by the Central Pacific Railroad representing 90 percent of the entire work force.

The thirty-two-piece Chinese domino set, made to represent each possible face of two thrown dice and thus have no blank faces, differs from the twenty-eight-piece domino set found in the West during the mid 18th century.

Similarly, the Chinese concept of Mandate of Heaven required that the emperor properly carry out the proper rituals, consult his ministers, and made it extremely difficult to undo any acts carried out by an ancestor.

A playable 9000-year-old Gudi ( literally, " bone flute ") was excavated from a tomb in Jiahu along with 29 defunct twins, made from the wing bones of red-crowned cranes with five to eight holes each, in the Central Chinese province of Henan.

The finest Chinese kites are made from split bamboo ( usually golden bamboo ), covered with silk, and hand painted.

Officials made efforts to see that the films were also shown in theaters throughout the U. S. They were translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese for use by other countries.

The impression made by Greek fire on the west European Crusaders was such that the name was applied to any sort of incendiary weapon, including those used by Arabs, the Chinese, and the Mongols.

This latter policy was understood to mean a decisive shift in economic power from the Chinese to the Malays, who until then made up only 5 % of the professional class.

This has made its adoption difficult with the established user base from Hong Kong and Taiwan where traditional Chinese is the official language.