Time Line of Ancient Chinese Mathematics

• 2000 B.C.
  • Magic squares discovered by Yu the Great

• 1000 - 500 B.C.
  • Rod numerals
  • Pythagoras theorem

• 300 - 0 B.C.
  • Square and cube roots
  • Systems of linear equations
  • Measurement of a circle
  • Volume of a pyramid
  • Chiu chang suah shu, most famous Chinese mathematical book
  • Chou-pei, oldest of Chinese mathematical classics (300 B.C. ??)
  • 213 B.C. burning of related books and burial of protesting scholars

• 200 - 400
  • Liu Hui - (263 - ?) mathematics of surveying
  • Sun Zi - chinese remainder problem

• 400 - 800
  • Zhang Quijian - hundred fowl problem
  • Yi Xing - (683-727) first tangent table

• 1000 - 1200
  • Jian Xian - pascal triangle
  • Li Ye - (1192 - 1279) algebraic equations for geometry

• 1200 - 1400
  • Qin Jiushao - (1202 - 1261) chinese remainder theorem (Ta-Yen)
  • Yang Hui - (1270 - ?) first to study magic squares
  • Laws of signs - (+1299)
  • Ch'in Chiu-Shao - solution of numeric equations
  • Zhu Shijie - systems of equations
  • Horners method
  • Solution of polynomial equations

• +1500
  • Counting rods (1650??)
  • Matteo Ricci - (1552 - 1610) entry of Western mathematics into China

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