Cheng Dawei

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Cheng Dawei

Chinese mathematician

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East Asian mathematics
Fall into oblivion, 14th–16th centuries
… (“Systematic Treatise on Mathematics”) by Cheng Dawei (1592), had a special significance. In addition to its detailed treatment of arithmetic on the abacus, it provided a summa of mathematical knowledge assembled by the author after 20 years of bibliographic research. Re-edited several times through the 19th century, the “Systematic Treatise”…
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… (“Systematic Treatise on Mathematics”) by Cheng Dawei (1592), had a special significance. In addition to its detailed treatment of arithmetic on the abacus, it provided a summa of mathematical knowledge assembled by the author after 20 years of bibliographic research. Re-edited several times through the 19th century, the “Systematic Treatise”…
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