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    The Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections (simplified Chinese: 数书九章; traditional Chinese: 數書九章; pinyin: Shùshū Jiǔzhāng; Wade–Giles: Shushu Chiuchang)...
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    The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art and the Book on Numbers and Computation gave detailed processes for solving various mathematical problems in daily...
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  • his method of solving equations. Shu-shu chiu-chang, or Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections, was written by the wealthy governor and minister Ch'in...
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    Chinese provinces. Qin wrote Shùshū Jiǔzhāng ("Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections") in 1247 CE. This treatise covered a variety of topics including indeterminate...
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    The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art is a Chinese mathematics book, composed by several generations of scholars from the 10th–2nd century BCE, its...
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    "vacant position". Qín Jiǔsháo's 1247 Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections is the oldest surviving Chinese mathematical text using a round symbol ‘〇’ for...
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    nonetheless important publications in the history of mathematics. This is one of the earliest mathematical treatises that still survives today. The Papyrus...
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    in Utrecht (Netherlands). Ulrich Libbrecht died on 15 May 2017, in the Belgian town of Ronse. No cause of death was released. Mathematical Treatise in...
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  • solution to the Chinese remainder theorem on the Chinese work Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections from 1247. He arrived at the conclusion that the solution...
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  • mathematician Zhu Shijie in the 14th century the Chinese mathematician Qin Jiushao in his Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections in the 13th century the Persian...
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  • the Greeks. It was published in 1247 in Shushu Jiuzhang ("Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections"), written by Qin Jiushao. The height of a triangle can...
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    {a^{2}+c^{2}-b^{2}}{2}}\right)^{2}}},} published in Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections (Qin Jiushao, 1247). There are many ways to prove Heron's...
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    and in so doing, the clan consolidates its authority as regents in Japan. Qin Jiushao, Chinese mathematician, writes the Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections...
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    Zhu Shijie (category Articles lacking in-text citations from January 2013)
    dynasty mathematician Qin Jiushao (from Shùshū Jiǔzhāng, “Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections” of 1247). This was more than 570 years before English mathematician...
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  • Hindu–Arabic numerals in his Liber Abaci (Book of the Abacus). 1247 – Qin Jiushao publishes Shùshū Jiǔzhāng (Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections). 1248 – Li...
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    gathering rain and snowfall measurements in the Song mathematical treatise Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections. The book discusses the use of large conical...
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  • the Chinese mathematician Qin Jiushao wrote the Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections, which includes an algorithm for the numerical evaluation of polynomials...
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    Numeral system (category Mathematical notation)
    use of a round symbol 〇 for zero is first attested in the Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections of 1247 AD. The origin of this symbol is unknown; it...
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    Yoshio Mikami (category Historians of mathematics)
    Qin Jiushao, Sun Tzu, The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections, Li Ye, Zhu Shijie and study on π. Part II deals...
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    solution called Da-yan-shu (大衍術) in Qin Jiushao's 1247 Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections which was translated into English in early 19th century by British...
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    Decimal (category Fractions (mathematics))
    calculated a 7-digit approximation of π. Qin Jiushao's book Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections (1247) explicitly writes a decimal fraction representing...
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  • Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, Chinese mathematics book, composed from the 10th–2nd century BCE Shu shu Jiuzhang, or Mathematical Treatise in...
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    Song dynasty (category 10th-century establishments in China)
    determining the winter solstice. Qin's major work was the Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections published in 1247. Geometry was essential to surveying and cartography...
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    investment partnerships can be examined in a mathematical problem included in the Mathematical treatise in nine sections (Shu-shu chiu-chang) (1247 ed.) of...
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    Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns (category Chinese mathematics)
    Jiushao's "Ling long kai fang" method published in Shùshū Jiǔzhāng (“Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections”) in 1247 (more than 570 years before English mathematician...
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    Rod calculus (category Mathematical tools)
    extended the use of decimal fraction beyond metrology. In his book Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections, he formally expressed 1.1446154 day as 日 He marked...
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    solution was published by Qin Jiushao in his 1247 book Shushu Jiuzhang (數書九章 Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections). The Euclidean algorithm was first...
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  • mathematical treatise Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections. The book also discusses problems using large snow gauges made from bamboo situated in mountain...
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    Chinese remainder theorem (category Chinese mathematical discoveries)
    Da-yan-shu (大衍術) in Qin Jiushao's 1247 Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections which was translated into English in early 19th century by British missionary...
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    was published in 1247 in Shushu Jiuzhang ("Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections"), written by Qin Jiushao. In the 7th century CE, Brahmagupta developed...
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