Chu shih chieh biography of michael jackson

Chinese mathematician during the Yuan dynasty

For the artist, see Zhu Shijie (painter).

In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhu.

Zhu Shijie (simplified Chinese: 朱世杰; traditional Chinese: 朱世傑; pinyin: Zhū Shìjié; Wade–Giles: Chu Shih-chieh, –), courtesy nameHanqing (漢卿), pseudonymSongting (松庭), was a Chinese mathematician and writer during the Yuan Dynasty.^[1] Zhu was born close to today's Beijing.

Two of his mathematical works have survived: Introduction to Computational Studies (算學啓蒙Suan hsüeh Ch'i-mong) and Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns.

Chu shih chieh biography of michael jackson

Suanxue qimeng

The Suanxue qimeng (算學啓蒙), written in , is an elementary textbook on mathematics in three volumes, 20 chapters and problems. This book also showed how to measure two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional solids.

The Introduction strongly influenced the development of mathematics in Japan. The book was once lost in China, until the Qing dynasty m