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Cullen, Christopher: 1996, Astronomy and mathematics in ancient China: the Zhoubi suanjing, Cambridge University Press, 241 pages. ISBN 0 521 55089 0
Grattan-Guinness, Ivor: 1998, The Norton history of the mathematical sciences, Norton & Company, London , New York, 817 pages. ISBN 0 393 04650 8
Index lists: China, ancient pp93-7; China, cultural influences p101,110; China, later, pp107-109, Chinese remainder theorem p 107.
Ho Peng Yoke: 1970, "Chu Shi-chieh", Dictionary of scientific biography, Scribner's New York, pp265-271
Hoe, Jock: 1977, "Les systèmes d'équations polynômes dans le Siyuan yujian (1303)", Mémoires de l'Institut des hautes études chinoises, Volume VI, Paris, 338 pages. ISBN 2-85757-004-X
Konantz, Emma Louise: 1924, "The precious mirror of the four elements: an expression of the Chinese genius", China journal of sciences and arts, Vol 2, no 4, pp304-310
Konantz writes that her article resulted from her assisting Dr Chen Zaixin, head of the Department of Mathematics at Yanjing University to make a complete translation of the Siyuan yujian. Her translation of the title as "precious mirrorof the four elements" obscures the fact that it is a book on algebra, but for many years, this has been the title preferred by most of the writers in English who have happened to mention it. The literal meaning of the title is the "jade mirror of the four unknowns."
Lam Lay Yong: 1977, A critical study of the Yang Hui Suan Fa: a thirteenth century Chinese mathematical treatise, Singapore University Press, 360 pages.
Lam Lay Yong: 1979, "Chu Shih-chieh's Suan hsüeh ch'i-meng [Intruduction to mathmeatical studies]", Archive for history of exact sciences,vol 21, no 1, pp1-31.
Libbrecht, Ulrich: 1973, Chinese mathematics in the thirteenth century: The shu-shu chiu-chang of Ch'in Chui-shao, MIT Press, 555 pages. ISBN 0 262 12043 7
Martzloff, Jean-Claude: 1997, A history of Chinese mathematics, Springer, Berlin, 485 pages: with forewords by Jacques Gernet and Jean Dhombres. ISBN:3-540-54749-5.
To date, this is the most detailed account available in English. It is translated from the French by Stephen S. Wilson.
Mikami Yoshio: 1913, The development of mathematics in China and Japan, Chelsea Publishing Company, New York,
This was one of the earliest books in English on the subject, and for a long time was the only reliable source available in English. Until the last decade of the 20th century, it was the sole reference in the Encyclopaedia Britannica on the history of mathematics in China, even though much more up to date sources have been availble since the 1950s, when Joseph Needham's work began to appear.
Needham, Joseph: Science and civilisation in China, CambridgeUniversity Press
Volume 1: Introductory orientations,
Volume 2: History of scientific thought, 1969, First printed, 1956
Volume 3: Mathematics and the sciences of the heavens and the earth, First printed, 1959
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