Jesuit missionaries such as Matteo Ricci carried mathematical ideas back and forth between the two cultures from the 16th to 18th centuries, though at this point far more mathematical ideas were entering China than leaving.
Misioneiros xesuítas como Matteo Ricci conectaron as ideas matemáticas entre as dúas culturas entre os séculos XVI e XVIII; porén, entraban na China máis ideas matemáticas das que saían.