The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra By Roger Hart. Baltimore, (Johns Hopkins University Press). 2011. ISBN 978-0-8018-9755- 9. xiii 286 pp. US$65 (hardcover).
2012
Abstract
Review of a new book by Roger Hart on the systems of linear equations in Chinese mathematical texts from the Nine Chapters through the eighteenth century. The novel technical insights of the author are appraised, but several of his theses seem misplaced.