Suan Shu Shu - A book on numbers and computations

doi:10.1007/s00407-007-0124-1

	Suan Shu Shu - A book on numbers and computations
	Dauben, Joseph W.1,2,3
刊名	ARCHIVE FOR HISTORY OF EXACT SCIENCES
	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.