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Qin Jiushao
Qin Jiushao (Chinese: 秦九韶; pinyin: Qín Jiǔshào; Wade–Giles: Ch’in Chiu-Shao, ca. 1202–1261), courtesy name Daogu (道古), was a Chinesemathematician.
Biography
He was born in Ziyang, Sichuan, his ancestry was from Shandong, and is now regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 13th century.
This is particularly remarkable, as Qin did not devote his life to mathematics.
Professor Zhou used the radical solution of the cubic equation as a clue, and described the motivation to study complex numbers and the history of their birth.
He was accomplished in many other fields, however, and held a series of bureaucratic positions in several Chinese provinces.
Qin’s reputation as a lies in the Shùshū Jiǔzhāng (“Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections”), issued in 1247.
The treatise covered matters that ranged from indeterminate analysis to military matters and surveying. In the treatise, Qin included a version of the Chinese remainder theorem, which used algorithms to solve problems. In geometry, he discovered “Qin Jiushao's formula” in finding the area of a triangle with given length of three sides.
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