Shushu jiyi

work by Xu Yue

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In Xu Yue
…several books, of which only Shushu jiyi (“Memoir on the Methods of Numbering”), with a preface by Zhen Luan (flourished c. 560), is extant; some scholars question its authenticity, claiming that it was a forgery written in its entirety by Zhen. The treatise was used as an auxiliary mathematics textbook…
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