Skip to content
Catalog
You are not logged in |Login  
Add to My Lists Add to Bag MARC Display Return to Browse More Information
     
Limit search to available items
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
Bestseller
BestsellerE-Book
Author Lam, Lay Yong.

Title Fleeting footsteps : tracing the conception of arithmetic and algebra in ancient China / Lam Lay Yong, Ang Tian Se.

Publication Info. River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, [2004]
©2004

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Rocky Hill - Downloadable Materials  EBSCO Ebook    Downloadable
Rocky Hill cardholders click here to access this title from EBSCO
Edition Rev. ed.
Description 1 online resource (xxii, 243 pages) : illustrations
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 Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235) and index.
Contents 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 numeral system have its origins in the rod numeral system?
Note Print version record.
Subject Sun-tzu suan ching.
Mathematics, Chinese -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics, Ancient.
MATHEMATICS -- History & Philosophy.
Added Author Ang, Tian Se.
Added Title Sun-tzu suan ching. English.
Tracing the conception of arithmetic and algebra in ancient China.
Other Form: Print version: Lam, Lay Yong. Fleeting footsteps. Rev. ed. River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©2004 9812386963 9789812386960 (DLC) 2005277726 (OCoLC)60767147
ISBN 9789812567253 (electronic bk.)
9812567259 (electronic bk.)
-->
Permanent Link
Add a Review

 

Library Links

Encore

Search Tools

Language Settings

English
Español