Suan Shu Shu - A book on numbers and computations | |
Dauben, Joseph W.1,2,3 | |
刊名 | ARCHIVE FOR HISTORY OF EXACT SCIENCES
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2008-03-01 | |
卷号 | 62期号:2页码:91-178 |
ISSN号 | 0003-9519 |
DOI | 10.1007/s00407-007-0124-1 |
文献子类 | Article |
英文摘要 | In December and January of 1983-1984, archaeologists excavating the tomb of an ancient Chinese provincial bureaucrat at a Western Han Dynasty site near Zhangjiashan, in Jiangling county, Hubei Province, discovered a number of books on bamboo strips, including inter alia works on legal statutes, military practice, and medicine. Among these was a previously unknown mathematical work on some 200 bamboo strips, the Suan shu shu, or Book of Numbers and Computations. Based upon other works found in the tomb, especially a copy of the Er nian lii ling (Laws and Decrees of the Second Year (of the reign of empress Lu, i.e. Lu Hou)), archaeologists have dated the tomb to ca. 186 BCE (Lu Hou's regency lasted from 188 to 180 BCE). The Suan shu shu, as the earliest yet discovered work devoted specifically to mathematics from ancient China, has stirred considerable interest among Chinese historians of science. The translation and commentary offered here draw extensively on the works cited in Sect. 3 below. Several appendixes devoted to specific issues related to translating the Suan shu shu, including its title and the problem of determining English equivalents for various commodities that arise in the text, may be found in Appendix II. |
WOS关键词 | CHINA |
WOS研究方向 | History & Philosophy of Science ; Mathematics |
语种 | 英语 |
出版者 | SPRINGER |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000253515000001 |
内容类型 | 期刊论文 |
源URL | [http://ir.ihns.ac.cn/handle/311051/7392] ![]() |
专题 | 中国科学院自然科学史研究所 |
通讯作者 | Dauben, Joseph W. |
作者单位 | 1.CUNY,GradCtr,NewYork,NY10016USA 2.CUNY,HerbertHLehmanColl,DeptHist,Bronx,NY10468USA; 3.ChineseAcadSci,InstHistNatSci,Beijing100010,PeoplesRChina; |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Dauben, Joseph W.. Suan Shu Shu - A book on numbers and computations[J]. ARCHIVE FOR HISTORY OF EXACT SCIENCES,2008,62(2):91-178. |
APA | Dauben, Joseph W..(2008).Suan Shu Shu - A book on numbers and computations.ARCHIVE FOR HISTORY OF EXACT SCIENCES,62(2),91-178. |
MLA | Dauben, Joseph W.."Suan Shu Shu - A book on numbers and computations".ARCHIVE FOR HISTORY OF EXACT SCIENCES 62.2(2008):91-178. |
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