A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Mathematical Thoughts

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10.2991/erss-18.2019.120How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ancient Chinese mathematics; western mathematics; mathematical thought; history of mathematics; comparative mathematics.

Abstract

China's traditional mathematics has a long history and rich achievements. From the founding to the modern times, traditional Chinese mathematics has been developing independently and is rarely influenced by Western mathematical thoughts. I will analyze the historical significance and value of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic"; the reasons for the rise of mathematics in Sui and Tang Dynasties; the reasons for the rapid development of mathematics in the Yuan Dynasty; the reasons for the decline of mathematics in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the analysis of the characteristics and ways of thinking of ancient Chinese traditional mathematics. This paper has summarized it and compared it with Western mathematical thinking. Also, it has discovered the differences and similarities between the two. Based on the predecessors, I have summed up and predicted about how the future of Chinese mathematics should go.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Minhang Zhou
AU  - Lina Gao
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BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 International Workshop on Education Reform and Social Sciences (ERSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 605
EP  - 610
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