Li Shanlan
Li Shanlan( Lý thiện lan,courtesy name:Renshu nhâm thúc,art name:Qiuren thu nhân ) (1810 – 1882) was a Chinese mathematician of theQing Dynasty.
A native ofHaining,Zhe gian g,he was fascinated by mathematics since childhood, beginning with theNine Chapters on Mathematical Art.He eked out a living by being a private tutor for some years before fleeing to Shanghai in 1852 to evade theTaiping Rebellion.There he collaborated withAlexander Wylie,Joseph Edkins,and others to translate many Western mathematical works into Chinese, includingElements of Analytical Geometry and the Differential and Integral CalculusbyElias Loomis,Augustus De Morgan'sElements of Algebra,and the last nine volumes ofEuclid's Elements(fromHenry Billingsley's edition), the first six volumes of which having been rendered into Chinese byMatteo RicciandXu Guangqiin 1607. With Wylie, he also translatedOutlines of AstronomybyJohn Herscheland coined the Chinese names for many of the low-numberedasteroids.[1]
Li coined a great number of mathematical terms that are still used in Chinese today and that were later borrowed into theJapanese languageas well. He discovered theLi Shanlan identity(Li Shanlan's summation formulae) in 1867.[2]Later he worked in the think tank ofZeng Guofan.In 1868, he began to teach inTongwen Guanwhere he collaborated closely with linguistJohn Fryer.[3]: 6–79
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- ^Lý cạnh [Li Jing] (2018)."Tiểu hành tinh thế giới cổ điển âm nhạc".Trung Quốc khoa học kỹ thuật thuật ngữ [China Terminology].20(3): 66–75.doi:10.3969/j.issn.1673-8578.2018.03.015.Retrieved5 May2023.
- ^Martzloff, Jean-Claude (1997).A History of Chinese Mathematics.pp. 341–351.doi:10.1007/978-3-540-33783-6_18.ISBN978-3-540-33782-9.
- ^Wright, David (1996)."John Fryer and the Shanghai Polytechnic: making space for science in nineteenth-century China".The British Journal for the History of Science.29.Cambridge University Press: 1–16.doi:10.1017/S0007087400033835.
- Hummel, Arthur W. Sr.,ed. (1943)..Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period.United States Government Printing Office.
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