Liu hui biography
Liu hui biography
Liu hui mathematician.
Liu Hui
Chinese mathematician and writer
For other people named Liu Hui, see Liu Hui (disambiguation).
In this Chinese name, the family name is Liu.
Liu Hui (fl. 3rd century CE) was a Chinese mathematician who published a commentary in 263 CE on Jiu Zhang Suan Shu (The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art).[2] He was a descendant of the Marquis of Zixiang of the Eastern Han dynasty and lived in the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period (220–280 CE) of China.[3]
His major contributions as recorded in his commentary on The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art include a proof of the Pythagorean theorem, theorems in solid geometry, an improvement on Archimedes'sapproximation of π, and a systematic method of solving linear equations in several unknowns.
In his other work, Haidao Suanjing (The Sea Island Mathematical Manual), he wrote about geometrical problems and their application to surveying. He probably visited Luoyang, where