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Beginning around the May 4th Movement, and for several decades thereafter, Li Yan, Qian Baocong, Yan Dunjie, and others carried out substantial research on ancient Chinese mathematics. As a result of their work, international academic circles have continuously revised previously held opinions, refuting the erroneous claims that ancient Chinese mathematics produced no achievements and that all Chinese mathematical works were influenced and inspired by foreign mathematics.
Journal of Dialectics of Nature IV(6) (1982) 46-52.
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Quotation cited in Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, Chinese transi. Science Press, 1978, Vol. 3, p. 337.
Ibid., pp. 337, 342.
Qian Baocong, On the History of Chinese Mathematics (Zhong Guo Shu Xue Shi Hua), China Youth Press, 1957, pp. 54, 57-58.
This refers to a pyramid with a square base and a height at the point where the right angles intersect.
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Rongzhao, M. (1996). Liu Hui’s Theories of Mathematics. In: Dainian, F., Cohen, R.S. (eds) Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 179. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8717-4_19
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