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  1. How do the earliest known mathematical writings highlight the state's management of grains in early imperial China?Biao Ma & Karine Chemla - 2015 - Archive for History of Exact Sciences 69 (1):1-53.
    The earliest extant mathematical books from China contain a lot of problems and data about grains. They also betray a close relationship with imperial bureaucracy in this respect. Indeed, these texts quote administrative regulations about grains. For instance, the Book on mathematical procedures 筭數書, found in a tomb sealed ca. 186 BCE, has a section in common with the “regulations on granaries” from the Qin statutes in eighteen domains, known thanks to slips excavated at Shuihudi. Mathematical writings also deal with (...)
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  • Conventions for recreational problems in Fibonacci’s Liber Abbaci.John Hannah - 2011 - Archive for History of Exact Sciences 65 (2):155-180.
    Fibonacci’s treatment of so-called recreational problems in his Liber Abbaci has been interpreted as an early episode both in the history of systems of linear equations, and in the history of negative numbers. However, these problems are also interesting in their own right. We discuss some of the conventions which seem to have governed these problems. By considering certain pairs of problems, where one problem is unsolvable and its partner is solvable, we show that Fibonacci went to a significant effort (...)
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