Chu shih chieh biography for kids

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, 1249–1314), courtesy nameHanqing (漢卿), pseudonymSongting (松庭), was a Chinese mathematician and writer.

He was a Chinese mathematician during the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu was born close to today's Beijing. Two of his mathematical works have survived.

Chu shih chieh biography for kids

Introduction to Computational Studies (算學啓蒙Suan hsüeh Ch'i-mong), and Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns.

Suanxue qimeng

The Suan hsüeh Ch'i-mong (算學啓蒙), written in 1299, is an elementary textbook on mathematics in three volumes, 20 chapters and 259 problems.

This book also showed how to measure different two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional solids. The Introduction had an important influence on the development of mathematics in Japan. The book was once lost