JOURNAL OF DIALECTICS OF NATURE
A Comprehensive, Academic Journal of the Philosophy, History, Sociology and Cultural Studies of Science and Technology
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SONG Zhiye
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<p>Institute for the History of Science and Technology</p><p>Inner Mongolia Normal University</p><p>songzhiye2006@126.com</p>
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Jihe Yuanben and the Rise of the Modern Elementary Geometry Discipline in China Abstract: With the spreading of Element by Euclid, which was translated into Chinese, Jihe, an intrinsic vocabulary of traditional Chinese mathematics and culture, became a mathematical terminology with multiple meanings, like geometry, mathematics, Element, metrology and graphics. After developing for nearly 300 years, Jihe gradually became a terminology which refers to one of the Chinese mathematics disciplines, namely, geometry. As a discipline, geometry thrived with western mathematical culture being introduced to China, especially the academic meaning of “geometry” was established by Element. The rise of elementary geometry in China was a witness of great influence of Element for modernization of traditional Chinese mathematics. Meanwhile, Element was also a significance of arithmetic, geometry, algebra of elementary geometry in China.Issue:Volume 39, lssue 2, March 2017Page: 17-21
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