When were Liu Hui's mathematical works first translated into English?
score:7
I assume the translation in question is The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, which was indeed translated into French by Guo Shuchun and published in 2005.
In fact, the first full English translation of The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art wasn't published in English until 1999, although abridged translations were published much earlier.
The earliest abridged translation that I've been able to locate is Arithmetic in Nine Sections by the Swiss-American mathematical historian, Florian Cajori, which was published in 1893. The (very) abridged material appears as a chapter in his History of Mathematics.
(A more recent abridged translation was presented in Jiu zhang suanshu (nine chapters on the mathematical art): An overview by Lam Lay Yong, published in 1994.)
If you are researching Liu Hui, there is a fascinating paper titled Liu Hui and the First Golden Age of Chinese Mathematics, by Philip D. Straffin, Jr. which was published in Mathematics Magazine in 1998 (Vol. 71, No. 3. (June 1998), pp 163-181) which might be of interest to you.
More post
- 📝 Is this Brzezinski quote real?
- 📝 What is the other ancient Indian magic trick described by Adi Shankaracharya?
- 📝 What capabilities did Southern soldiers in the American Civil War have to get news about the North?
- 📝 What family or other connection bound Chiang Kaishek and Cai Yuanpei, two ideological opposites?
- 📝 What is the source for this story about Plato expelling a student?
- 📝 Was being in the KKK politically/socially acceptable in early 1900's American South?
- 📝 Why was Britain willing to return Hong Kong but not Gibraltar?
- 📝 How prestigious was the medical profession given the inefficacy of most treatments?
- 📝 Were there any Russians in the 1849 Gold Rush?
- 📝 Is it true that Newton ordered the hanging of counterfeiters?
- 📝 What is the history of Cartography?
- 📝 Where is the location of this large stump and monument (lighthouse?) background?
- 📝 What was the impetus for some African nations to participate in the slave trade?
- 📝 Why is the color red associated with communism?
- 📝 Where did the Roman money involved in the spice and luxury trade end up?
- 📝 Who are reputable historians who study ancient Greece?
- 📝 Why was most of Europe against communism right from the start?
- 📝 The greek 'daktylos'
- 📝 Why did East Germany fail? And why did DDR need hard currency 1986-1989?
- 📝 Were aerial dogfights during WW2 and WW1 typically very one-sided?
- 📝 Where can I find the complete texts of Churchill's essays on extraterrestrial life?
- 📝 Did the Soviet ever attempt "innocent passage" thru American waters?
- 📝 What were the main centres of population in South America in 1500 AD?
- 📝 How did the French take the Republican Calendar?
- 📝 Have any big events happened during DST changeover?
- 📝 Language of early French (West-Frankish) kings
- 📝 Why did the Soviet Union lift the Berlin Blockade?
- 📝 Why weren’t the Dutch and Belgian borders fortified with wire, trenches, mines, etc., as it became clear Germany would invade during WW2?
- 📝 Did West Russia really have a rock shortage in WW2? And if so, what was the cause?
- 📝 Why was Queretaro chosen as a fail-safe capital of Mexico?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 When were Liu Hui's mathematical works first translated into English?
- 📝 When did the term "Nationality" first come into use? How did ancient civilizations refer to themselves? By ethnicity?
- 📝 When and where were the first coins made showing the currency or a face value?
- 📝 When did the English and Americans realize that vegetables were healthy?
- 📝 When were US Presidential candidates' names first shown on the ballot?
- 📝 When were the first timezones established?
- 📝 When were the first mosques established in Constantinople?
- 📝 When were both minuscule and majuscule letters used for the first time in the same Latin manuscript?
- 📝 When were the first deaths from the Spanish Flu Pandemic?
- 📝 Where and why were capital letters first used in English headlines?
- 📝 When were public tariffs and taxes for water supply introduced for the first time?
- 📝 When were the first heating apparatus used for bathing?
- 📝 When were terms for points of sail first used?
- 📝 When names of these countries were first called
- 📝 When were swords last used in European warfare?
- 📝 When did the Romans finally acknowledge that they were living in an empire?
- 📝 Were there occasions when a sovereign country voluntarily joined another country?
- 📝 When were 'time zones' (or at least time difference) discovered?
- 📝 Were the first sonic booms predicted?
- 📝 Were there ethnic Russians in Alaska when the US purchased it 1867? Did they stay?
- 📝 How did people react to Cavendish bananas when they first replaced the Gros Michel strain?
- 📝 How could Jews integrate into Western modern society back when Saturday was a normal working day?
- 📝 When did challenging to a duel cease to be a practice in English culture?
- 📝 Were Soviets invited to the Marshall Islands to observe the first hydrogen bomb detonations?
- 📝 What / When was the first use of concentration camps in history?
- 📝 How were diplomats and their staffs treated when World War II was declared?
- 📝 When did the use of fabricated speeches in historical works go out of fashion?
- 📝 What did English people really say when knighting someone?
- 📝 When did books first become affordable to the general population?
- 📝 When did the Roman Forum fall into disuse?