The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra

A monumental accomplishment in the history of non—Western mathematics, The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra explains the fundamentally visual way Chinese mathematicians understood and solved mathematical problems. It argues convincingly that what the West "discovered" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had already been known to the Chinese for 1,000 years.

Accomplished historian and Chinese—language scholar Roger Hart examines Nine Chapters of Mathematical Arts—the classic ancient Chi...