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Encyclopedia > Sun Tzu (mathematician)
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Sun Tzu or Sun Zi was a Chinese mathematician, sometime between the third to fifth century CE. Image File history File links Zhongwen. ... Japanese name Kanji: Kana: Korean name Hangul: Hanja: Vietnamese name Quoc Ngu: Hantu: A Chinese character (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ) is a logogram used in writing Chinese, Japanese, sometimes Korean, and formerly Vietnamese. ... Leonhard Euler, considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of mathematics. ... (2nd century - 3rd century - 4th century - other centuries) Events The Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east. ... (4th century - 5th century - 6th century - other centuries) Events Rome sacked by Visigoths in 410. ... “Era Vulgaris” redirects here. ...


Interested in astronomy and trying to develop a calendar, he investigated Diophantine equations. He is only known for authoring Sun Tzu Suan Ching 孙子算经 (pinyin: Sun Zi Suan Jing; literally, "Sun Tzu's Calculation Classic"), which contains the Chinese remainder theorem. A giant Hubble mosaic of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant Astronomy (also frequently referred to as astrophysics) is the scientific study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earths atmosphere (such as the cosmic background radiation). ... A page from the Hindu calendar 1871-72. ... In mathematics, a Diophantine equation is an indeterminate polynomial equation that allows the variables to be integers only. ... Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), commonly called Pinyin, is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... Several related results in number theory and abstract algebra are known under the name Chinese remainder theorem. ...


Bibiography

English translation of Sun Zi suanjing: (The Mathematical Classic of Sun Zi)

  • Fleeting Footsteps, by Lam Lay Yong and Ang Tian Se, Part Two. World Scientific Publishing Company; June 2004 ISBN 9812386963

External links

  • Sun Tzu at MacTutor


 

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