Title: The Chinese roots of linear algebra /
Authors: Hart, Roger.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Mathematics, Chinese History; Algebras, Linear History.; China Intellectual life.
Abstract: The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra explains the fundamentally visual way Chinese mathematicians understood and solved mathematical problems. It argues convincingly that what the West "discovered" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had already been known to the Chinese for 1,000 years.
Contents: Introduction -- Preliminaries -- The sources: written records of early Chinese Mathematics -- Excess and deficit -- Fangcheng, Chapter 8 of the Nine Chapters -- The Fangcheng procedure in Modern Mathematiecal Terms -- The well problem -- Evidence of early determinantal solutions -- Conclusions.