Yongle Encyclopedia
The text existed in manuscript form in 1247, it was incorporated into The Yongle Encyclopedia in 1421; in 1787 the book was collected into Siku Quanshu, in 1842 appeared in woodblock printed edition. The 19th century British Protestant Christian missionary Alexander Wylie in his article "Jottings on the Sciences of Chinese Mathematics" published in "North China Herald" 1852, was the first person to introduce Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections to the West. In 1971 Belgian sinologist Ulrich Libbrecht published his doctorate dissertation, "Chinese Mathematics in the Thirteenth Century", which earned him a degree cum laude at Leiden University.