Article ID: CBB000760576

Historical Reflection on the Real Number System (2007)

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Meng, Hu (Author)


Journal of Dialectics of Nature
Volume: 29, no. 6
Issue: 6
Pages: 78-83


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Chinese.
Language: Chinese

By analyzing the development history of number system in China and the West, the article showed that their construction, extension and fulfillment had great differences. Also it offered doubt to main viewpoint of the article "Chinese ancient arithmetic and real number system".

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Description Compares the history of the real number system in China and the West.


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Authors & Contributors
Cohen, H. Floris
Vandendriessche, Eric
Kubin, Wolfgang
Yuan, Min
Vogel, Hans Ulrich
Steinberg, Michael
Concepts
Cross-cultural comparison
Western world, civilization and culture
East Asia, civilization and culture
Mathematics
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Time Periods
Ancient
19th century
17th century
Medieval
Premodern
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
Places
China
Greece
Europe
Japan
Asia
Korea
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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