An interactive gallery of the mathematical traditions of East Asia spanning over 3000 years.
A mathematics text by the mathematician Du Zhong 杜总.
A mathematics text by the mathematician Xu Shang 許商.
Chinese astronomer and mathematician during the Western Han dynasty (206 BC - 9 AD) and Wang Mang's interregnum (9 - 23 AD).
The method of solving simultaneous linear equation with arbitrarily many unknowns was fully developed by this time. This method is equivalent to Gaussian elimination.
Negative numbers first appear in China.
A collection of 246 problems was officially finalized in this year. The work probably included mathematics known since the Warring States Period (476 - 221 BC).
Chinese music theorist, astronomer, mathematician, and diviner during the Han dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD).
Chinese astronomer, inventor, mathematician, and literary scholar during the Han dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD).
The oldest surviving Chinese text on mathematical astronomy.
Linear modular congruences were used to compute the Chinese calendar as early as the 2nd century BC.
Chinese astronomer and mathematician.
Earliest records of an early abacus used in the 2nd century AD.
Chinese mathematician and astronomer from the Kingdom of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period.
Oldest copy of a Chinese mathematical text unearthed.
Mathematics text written by Xu Yue.
The Chinese technique of linear interpolation that is equivalent to the double false position method.
Chinese mathematician from the Kingdom of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period.
A nascent form of trigonometry.
Chinese statesman, Confucian scholar, music theorist, and mathematician during the Han dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD)
A geometric method for calculating π.
Solids with equal cross-sectional areas have equal volume. This method of analyzing the infinitesimal cross-sections of solids is equivalent to the Cavalieri principle.
Mathematics text by Chinese mathematician Liu Hui.
A collection of arithmetic problems. This text is famous for the earliest written exposition of the Chinese Remainder Theorem.
A method of solving systems of linear congruences.
Earliest decimal multiplication table excavated in the world.
Chinese philosopher who lived during the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC).
Chinese philosopher during the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC).
An important book of definitions on Mohist philosophy and science knowledge.
Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and inventor.
Chinese mathematician who wrote the text Zhang Qiujian suanjing (Zhang Qiujian's Mathematical Manual).
Chinese mathematician and astronomer during the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC).
Chinese astronomer and mathematician.
Chinese philosopher, logician, craftsman, and engineer during the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC).
Mathematics text written by Chinese mathematician Zhang Qiujian.
A Chinese text on mathematics and astronomy by Zu Chongzhi and Zu Geng. The text was lost since the Southern Song dynasty.
Primary Chinese computation tool prior to the suanpan abacus.
Chinese astronomer and mathematician during the Sui dynasty (581 - 618 AD).
Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and diviner during the Tang dynasty (618 - 907 AD).
Mathematical text by Wang Xiaotong.
First magic square in recorded history.
Chinese mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and Buddhist monk during the Tang dynasty (618 - 907 AD).
A famous combinatorics problem that involves the number of configurations on a Go board.
Chinese equivalent to the Pythagorean theorem.
Earliest Chinese text that utilizes abstract symbols for describing natural change.
Method of computing finite series.
Chinese mathematician during the Song dynasty (960 - 1279 AD).
Chinese polymath and statesman during the Song dynasty (960 - 1279 AD).
Chinese polymath and high official during the Song dynasty (960 - 1279 AD).
Chinese mathematician and astronomer during the Zhou dynasty (c.1046 - 256 BC).
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