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Liu Hui

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Chinese mathematician from Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms period)

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Works
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  • Gong cheng jing ji xue
  • Xin ke cheng yu zhong xiao xue yin yue jian shang jiao xue

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Type
Character
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
Active from
1969
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Key facts

Born
c. 225 , Zibo , Shandong
Died
c. 295
Occupations
Mathematician, writer

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Encyclopedic overview

Liu Hui (fl.  3rd century CE) was a Chinese mathematician who published a commentary in 263 CE on Jiu Zhang Suan Shu (The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art). He was a descendant of the Marquis of Zixiang of the Eastern Han dynasty and lived in the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period (220–280 CE) of China.

His major contributions as recorded in his commentary on The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art include a proof of the Pythagorean theorem, theorems in solid geometry, an improvement on Archimedes's approximation of π, and a systematic method of solving linear equations in several unknowns. In his other work, Haidao Suanjing (The Sea Island Mathematical Manual), he wrote about geometrical problems and their application to surveying. He probably visited Luoyang, where he measured the sun's shadow.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Liu Hui” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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