Book ID: CBB000027612

Was Pythagoras Chinese? An examination of right triangle theory in ancient China (1977)

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Swetz, Frank J. (Author)
Kao, T. I. (Author)


Pennsylvania State University Press


Publication Date: 1977
Physical Details: 75 pp.; illus.; bibl.

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Review Lay-yong, Lam (1979) Review of "Was Pythagoras Chinese? An examination of right triangle theory in ancient China". Historia Mathematica (pp. 218-20). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Martzloff, Jean-Claude
Wagner, Donald Blackmore
Lam, Lay-Yong
Ang, Tian Se
Swetz, Frank J.
Shen, Kangsheng
Journals
Historia Mathematica
Proceedings of the ... International Congress of the History of Science
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Sciences et Techniques en Perspective
Philosophy and the History of Science: A Taiwanese Journal
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
People
Liu, Hui
Euclid
Mei, Wen-Ting
Imamura, Tomoaki
Chao Chün-Ching
Time Periods
17th century
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