Xu gu zhai qi suan fa

work by Yang Hui

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    …Surveying and Analogous Categories”), and Xu gu zhai qi suan fa (1275; “Selection of Strange Mathematical Methods in Continuation of Antiquity”). A collected edition (1378) of these works was transmitted farther to the east, where it was particularly influential. In Korea it was reprinted during the reign of Sejong in…

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