Search results for "Chinese mathematician" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Wenyuan (文遠), was a prominent Chinese mathematician and astronomer during ... Chinese mechanical engineer Ma Jun (c. 200-265 C.E.) originally invented ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 2023
- (also named Sir William Jones) was a famous mathematician. The young William Jones was a linguistic prodigy, learning Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- , courtesy name Zixian (子先), was a Chinese bureaucrat, agricultural ... Jesuit Matteo Ricci (left) and the Chinese mathematician Xu Guangqi (徐光啟 ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- Christianity and Western ideas to the Chinese Empire in the sixteenth ... Christianity in China, he showed Chinese scholars that foreign countries ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- the Clock Tower with a logo made from the Chinese characters for "University ... *Heisuke Hironaka mathematician Fields Medal laureate *Shigefumi Mori ...16 KB (2,170 words) - 04:41, 4 March 2023
- for much of Christian culture in Chinese society today. Members of ... Xavier, however, died the same year on the Chinese island of Shangchuan, without ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- The Apologia of an Economist to the Mathematician, the Scientist and the ... The apologia of an economist to the mathematician, the scientist and the ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- Al-Hassār, a Muslim mathematician from the Maghreb (North Africa ... translation, La Disme, by the Flemish mathematician Simon Stevin (1548-1620 ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 14:36, 22 January 2023
- role in the governing itself of the ancient Chinese rulers: ... The early Chinese sages were fascinated to "look upward and contemplate ...30 KB (4,747 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- a horizontal line, as is still the case in Chinese script. The Gupta wrote ... exclude units. The last professional mathematician to publicly label 1 a ...16 KB (2,188 words) - 06:29, 13 June 2023
- ===Doctrine of the Mean in Chinese Society=== In China prior to the ... *Gardner, Daniel. "Confucian Commentary and Chinese Intellectual ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 06:15, 20 December 2022
- architect, painter, classicist, poet, mathematician, and horseman, and Leonardo ... , an Arab astronomer, geographer, mathematician, meteorologist, musician ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- more than a thousand workers a day. The Chinese iron industry was also expanded ... methods were pioneered by the American mathematician William Edwards Deming ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 23:24, 26 June 2022
- of the positions of Parmenides. The Chinese philosopher Hui Shi independently ... the Zermelo Paradox (after the German mathematician Ernst Zermelo, 1871-1953 ...14 KB (2,272 words) - 07:43, 18 November 2022
- as early as 100 B.C.E. - 50 B.C.E. The Chinese ”Nine Chapters on the ... was discussed more explicitly by Indian mathematician Brahmagupta, in Brahma ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- The Chinese character for beauty (美) consists of the components ... tradition, see the task of the mathematician to discover patterns ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- ) (CE 78–139) was a Chinese polymath, being a astronomer, mathematician ... Reconstruction Designs of Lost Ancient Chinese Machinery. (Dordrecht: Springer ...53 KB (7,780 words) - 16:31, 19 January 2024
- Faxian (Fa-shien) had been the first of three great Chinese pilgrims ... Varahamihira, a famous astronomer and mathematician, had been another. ...13 KB (1,823 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- In geometry, a polyhedron (plural polyhedra or polyhedrons) is often defined as a three-dimensional object with flat, polygonal faces and straight ...42 KB (6,082 words) - 00:20, 12 April 2023
- Socratic philosopher, a mystic, and a mathematician, known best for the Pythagorean ... the principle of yin and yang in ancient Chinese thought. The Pythagoreans ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
