A Study On Zu Chongzhi - 1582 Words

Zu Chongzhi is a famous Chinese mathematician and Astronomer lived in 429-501 A.D., Zu had do various of mathematics in his life, he improve Chinese mathematical, and made China become a powerful mathematical countries in 1000 years ago. Zu has many contributions in Chinese mathematical and astronomy such as 7 digits of PI, zhuishu(Method of Interpolation, The definition of zhui is method of ancient Chinese astronomy, shu is book), and the Daming Calender. but Zu is live in a war age that caused many of Zu’s inventions and story have been lost in the history. Sixteen kingdoms period((304 to 439A.D.), â€Å"While the era was one of biggest crisis in Chinese history(another one is Eight-Nation alliance attack china) and it was also one of deep†¦show more content†¦In Zu Chongzhi’s childhood, he was studying the mathematical and astronomer by his family. When he is 14 year old, Zu serves as becomes a student of HuaLin student academy, which is best school in Liu-song dynasty and he is studying mathematical, astronomy, and philosophy in HuaLin student academy. The nine chapters on the mathematical art is an anonymous work, and its origins are not clear. (Jing Fang,Liu Xin, and Zhang Heng, People guess one of these three people is the author of book.). Yet it is only one Chinese mathematics book in Zu’s age. Zu have studied mathematical in this book and use it’s equations and theorems to calculated Pi, sphere’s equation, completed Daming calender, and other mathematical or astronomy works. Shuishu(The Method of Interpolation) is a mathematics book by Zu Chongzhi and Zu Geng(Zu Chongzhi ’s son). This book become math textbook at the Tang dynasty and it also revised problem of The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art. This book also recorded Zu’s equation to calculated Pi and area of sphere, but it is lost in Song’s dynasty(The period after Tang’s dynasty).Therefore, Nobody know how Zu calculate the Pi and the area of sphere.Historians believe if Shuishu is survived,the history of Pi will be c hange and we can have another way to calculate corrected value of Pi. Historians also guess Zu Chongzhi knows that â€Å"if a/b ≠¤ c/d then a/b ≠¤Show MoreRelatedHistory of Calculus Essay1186 Words   |  5 Pages287#8722;212 BC) developed this idea further, inventing heuristics which resemble integral calculus.[3] The method of exhaustion was later used in China by Liu Hui in the 3rd century AD in order to find the area of a circle. It was also used by Zu Chongzhi in the 5th century AD, who used it to find the volume of a sphere.[2] In AD 499 the Indian mathematician Aryabhata used the notion of infinitesimals and expressed an astronomical problem in the form of a basic differential equation.[4] This equationRead MoreSimilarities And Contributions And Achievements Of The Tang Empire1296 Words   |  6 Pageshuman nature is moral, rational, and essentially good.† Earlier Confucian ideals in the Tang empire consisted of sage kings as well as political leaders. Neo-Confucians believed in a universal sage hood, â€Å"a state that could be achieved through proper study of the new Confucian principles and cosmology.† Meditation during the Song empire was also embraced by Confucians. The Tang and Song have this strong political achievement of types of Confucianism as a similarity, however they also have varying achievementsRead MoreCalculus As A Part Of Modern Mathematics Education1708 Words   |  7 PagesCalculus (from Latin calculus, literally small pebble used for counting)[1] is the mathematical stu dy of change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape and algebra is the study of operations and their application to solving equations. It has two major branches, differential calculus (concerning rates of change and slopes of curves),[2] and integral calculus (concerning accumulation of quantities and the areas under and between curves);[3] these two branches are related to each other