Sun Tzu (mathematician)
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- This article is about the mathematician Sun Tzu. For the military strategist of the same name, see Sun Tzu.
Sun Tzu or Sun Zi was a Chinese mathematician, probably from a time somewhere between the third to fifth century CE.
Interested in astronomy and trying to develop a calendar, he investigated Diophantine equations. He is only known for authoring Sun Tzu Suan Ching (pinyin: Sun Zi Suan Jing; literally, "Sun Tzu's Calculation Classic"), which contains the Chinese remainder theorem.
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English translation of Sun Zi suanjing: (The Mathematical Classic of Sun Zi)
- Fleeting Footsteps, by Lam Lay Yong and Ang Tian Se, Part Two. World Scientific Publishing Company; June 2004 ISBN 9812386963
