Shushu Jiyi


Shushu Jiyi is a Chinese mathematical treatise written by the Eastern Han dynasty mathematician Xu Yue. The text received a subsequent commentary by Zhen Luan in the 6th century.

Description

The text mentions 14 methods of calculation, and it was selected to become one of the Ten Computational Canons in the 11th century during the Song dynasty, replacing the Zhui Shu by Zu Chongzhi.
The earliest surviving printed edition of the text is a Southern Song printed copy from 1212, now preserved in the Peking University Library.