41. The Science Bookstore - Chronology 190 AD, chinese mathematicians calculated pi to five decimal places.271 AD, chinese mathematicians invented the magnetic compass. Boethius http://www.thesciencebookstore.com/chron.asp?searchstring=Math

42. The Science Bookstore - Chronology 190 AD, chinese mathematicians calculated pi to five decimal places.200 271 AD, chinese mathematicians invented the magnetic compass. 415 http://www.thesciencebookstore.com/chron.asp

Home Page About Us Books Prints and Maps ... SciImages Quick Search: (Enter name, year, or keyword) SAMPLE PREVIEW OF CALENDAR ENTRIES: History of Science Women in Medicine and Science History of Mathematics History of Chemistry Chronology of the History of Science Calendars Available Again Since 1993 we've been producing an assortment of calendars highlighting the history of science. They're back! All are 17x11 when open, displaying artwork on the top half and the calendar with the birthdates of scientists on the bottom. They are $12 each, postpaid in the U.S. Available now are: History of Science, with 875 entries BUY Women in Medicine and Science, 275 entries BUY ... BUY 3000 BCE Dust abacus is invented, probably in Babylonia. Imhotep, Born: 2635 Died: 2595 Poet, architect and physician-priest; vizier and high priest of Ptah during the reign of Djoser I. 2635 BCE Related Links: http://touregypt.net/who/imhotep.htm http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/prehistory/egypt/history/people/imhotep.html http://this.com/imhotep.htm# http://classes.yale.edu/hsar112a/pga071.html ... http://www.uh.edu/admin/engines/epi1074.htm c. 2600 BCE Imhotep,

43. News Center Of Peking University ? News Center Academic Focus News Center of Peking University. ?. News Center Academic Focus.Related News Two chinese mathematicians Honored. 200211-05. Two http://www.pku.edu.cn/cgi-bin/bigate.cgi/b/g/g/http@pkunews.pku.edu.cn/enc/news/

News Center of Peking University News Center Related News: Two Chinese Mathematicians Honored Two Chinese mathematicians Jiang Boju and Gong Sheng were awarded the Hua Luogeng Mathematics Prize on Thursday, the highest honor of its kind in China. Jiang Boju, from Peking University, and Gong Sheng, from the Chinese University of Science and Technology, were selected for their outstanding contributions to the field of mathematics. The biennial prize was initially set up in 1992 in honor of late Chinese mathematician Hua Luogeng, who was noted for his pioneering research in mathematics. In the past 10 years, eight mathematicians, all of whom are members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, had won the prize, including Chen Jingrun, known for his research into Gold Bach¡¦s theory. The prize is sponsored by the China Mathematics Society and the Hunan Educational Publishing House.

44. History Of Science And Technology : Timeline 190 chinese mathematicians calculated pi to five decimal places.271 - chinese mathematicians invented the magnetic compass. 415 http://www.crimsonbird.com/science/timeline.htm

History of Science and Technology : Timeline Chronological Summary of Inventions Link to the site main index Link to the science book reviews page Link to the history book reviews page Please see our recommended books list : history of science - technology - mathematics - inventions - discoveries A Chronology of Significant Events in the History of Science and Technology http://www.crimsonbird.com/ c. 2725 B.C. - Imhotep in Egypt considered the first medical doctor c. 2540 B.C. - Pyramids of Egypt constructed c. 2000 B.C. - Chinese discovered magnetic attraction c. 700 B.C. - Greeks discovered electric attraction produced by rubbing amber c. 600 B.C. - Anaximander discovered the ecliptic (the angle between the plane of the earth's rotation and the plane of the solar system) c. 600 B.C. - Thales proposed that nature should be understood by replacing myth with logic; that all matter is made of water c. 585 B.C. - Thales correctly predicted solar eclipse c. 530 B.C. - Pythagoras developed mathematical theory c. 500 B.C. - Anaximenes introduced the ideas of condensation and rarefaction

45. Mathematicians Italian Mathematicians. chinese mathematicians. http://www.ramona.k12.ca.us/rhs/rhslmc/math/mathematicians.htm

Mathematicians General Reference Biographical Index includes biographies about: Apollonius, Archimedes, Charles Babbage, The Bernoulli family, Lewis Carroll, Georg Cantor, Christopher Clavius, Diophantes, Eratosthenes, Euclid, Pierre de Fermat, Leonard Pisano Fibonacci, Evaroste Galois, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Sophie Germain, Heron, Hypathia, Yang Hui, Felix Klein, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Leonardo da Vinci, Ada Byron Lovelace, August Mobius, Augustus de Morgan, John von Neumann, Emmy Noether, Pythagoras, Michael Stifel, Thales, Grace Chisolm Young, Zeno, Zhu Shi-jie. History of Mathematics this site links to information about several of the mathematicians including Archimedes, Georg Cantor, Euclid, Leonard of Pisa (Fibonacci), Emmy Noether, and Zeno. History of Mathematics this site hyperlinks to several sites related to the mathematicians on your list. Some of these links are: Zeno's Paradox of Motion, Archimedes and the Square Root of 3, Euclid's Plan and Proposition 6, Franklin's Magic Squares, and On Gauss's Mountains. Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles examples of the theories put forth by many of the mathematicians can be located here. Some examples include: Apollonius, Archimedes, Cantor, Euclid, Heron, Moebius, and Pythagorius

46. TU-Berlin China Study Group Therefore, chinese mathematicians began to be familiar with the modern symbolicalgebra, calculus and some other branches of Western mathematics. http://station7.kgw.tu-berlin.de/english/abstracts/TianM.html

Study Group for the History and Philosophy of Chinese Science and Technology Home page Address: Sekr.TEL 14-7 Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7 10587 Berlin Telephone: Facsimile: Technische Universitaet Berlin Department 1: Communications and History Study Group for the History and Philosophy of Chinese Science and Technology 8th International Conference on the History of Science in China The Westernization of Chinese Mathematics - A Case Study on the Development of the Duoji Method TIAN MIAO CAS, Beijing Western mathematics was transmitted into China in the Late Ming and Early Qing Period. It had a great impact on the development of Chinese mathematics. After 1840's, many Western mathematical books, including Elias Loomis's Elements of Analytical Geometry and the Differential and Integral Calculus , Augustus De Morgan's Elements of Algebra and William Wallace's Fluxions and Algebra in the eighth edition of Encyclopedia Britannica , were translated into Chinese. Therefore, Chinese mathematicians began to be familiar with the modern symbolic algebra, calculus and some other branches of Western mathematics. At the same time, some high officials and scholars were impressed by the destructive power of Western weapons. As the skill in the manufacture of fire-arms was derived from the study of mathematics, so they energetically encouraged the study and education of mathematics. Therefore, there were many mathematicians and a great deal of mathematical works in late Qing Dynasty. By the study on these works, we can get a clear view of the Westernization of Chinese Mathematics. In this article, I would like to give a detailed study on the development of the Duoji method (the method of calculating the summation of finite series), in order to show how the method of traditional mathematics was transformed into the Western one.

47. Morningside Asia | About Us | Philanthropy Center, located in Beijing and housed within the Chinese Academy of Science, promotesintellectual exchanges between young chinese mathematicians and acclaimed http://www.morningside.com/EN/philanthropy.html

Investing in the community In China and around the world, Morningside's philanthropic endeavors support educational opportunities for the needy, advances in medical research and the preservation of cultural relics. Morningside's philanthropic activities in China include: Morningside Center of Mathematics The Morningside Center, located in Beijing and housed within the Chinese Academy of Science, promotes intellectual exchanges between young Chinese mathematicians and acclaimed mathematicians from around the world. The Morningside Center attracts internationally renowned professors to participate in its forums and programs. Morningside Symposium and Morningside Mathematics Medal Established through the Morningside Center of Mathematics, the Morningside Mathematics Medals encourage the pursuit of outstanding original research by young mathematicians of Chinese descent. A panel of internationally distinguished mathematicians serves as judges for selecting the recipients of the Morningside Medals. Morningside Scholarships Morningside scholarships support over five hundred needy students at five top universities in China: Beijing University, Beijing

48. CMPS: Recent Awards 2001 Morningside Silver Medal, International Congress of chinese mathematicians. Nau,Dana, CS/UMIACS. Chern Prize, International Congress of chinese mathematicians. http://www.cmps.umd.edu/recent_awards.htm

About CMPS Departments, Institutes Centers and Labs CMPS Excellence Alumni Information ... Inside CMPS July 1, 2001 - September 30, 2002 2001 Morningside Silver Medal International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians Wu, Sijue Mathematics 2001/2002 Semester Award UM Graduate Research Board Fuhrer, Michael Physics 2001/2002 Semester Award UM Graduate Research Board Liu, Jian-Guo Mathematics/IPST 2001/2002 Semester Award UM Graduate Research Board McGaugh, Stacy Astronomy 2001/2002 Semester Award UM Graduate Research Award Paik, Ho Jung Physics 2001/2002 Semester Award UM Graduate Research Board Veilleux, Sylvian Astronomy 2002 Distinguished Alumnus Award University of Maryland Yorke, James Math/Physics/IPST 2002 Summer Research Award UM Graduate Research Board Lower, Steven

49. On Campus News If you were to count the expatriate chinese mathematicians working just in Canada,you’d have a mathematics community comparable in research strength to http://www.usask.ca/communications/ocn/Sept17-99/research.html

Sept 17, 1999 Volume 7, Number 2 GENERAL INFORMATION: About OCN IN THIS PUBLICATION: Cover Stories News Index ... Year 2000 RESEARCH Prof. leads way with Internet math project Official Launch of the Canadian Light Source Prof. leads way with Internet math project By Kathryn Warden Kathryn Warden University of Saskatchewan professor Keith Taylor was among some 60 mathematical scientists invited by the federal government and the Canadian Mathematical Society to attend a recent high-level Canadian-Chinese mathematics congress in Beijing. The unprecedented meeting, attended by hundreds of scientists, focused on the central importance of mathematics for the modern economy. Far from being an Ivory Tower subject with little relevance to everyday life, math provides new tools to help unlock the genetic code of biological materials, analyse environmental factors that affect human health and evaluate risks that affect costs and prices. As Brzustowski stated earlier this year, "By providing new tools to explain or simplify complex real-world problems, mathematics plays a key role in every modern science and engineering discipline." Keith Taylor part of delegation to China But despite its venerable 6,000-year tradition of mathematics, China has in recent years suffered a brain drain of many of its finest mathematical minds. China now risks not having enough mathematicians to educate its massive 1.2-billion population.

50. BACK Posted 21.9.1999 By Kathryn Warden If you were to count the expatriate chinese mathematicians working just in Canada,you'd have a mathematics community comparable in research strength to what http://www.usask.ca/research/news/937895331.shtml

BACK Posted 21.9.1999 by Kathryn Warden PROF LEADS WAY WITH INTERNET MATH PROJECT COLUMN BY KATHRYN WARDEN There is a photo of Keith Taylor on his web page: http://math.usask.ca/~taylor/personal.html University of Saskatchewan professor Keith Taylor was among some 60 mathematical scientists invited by the federal government and the Canadian Mathematical Society to attend a recent high-level Canadian-Chinese mathematics congress in Beijing. The Canadian delegation was led by Tom Brzustowski, president of NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council). Guests invited to a Canadian embassy reception included the Deputy Director of the National People's Congress, the head of China's NSERC counterpart, and the presidents of China's three mathematics institutes. The unprecedented meeting, attended by hundreds of scientists, focussed on the central importance of mathematics for the modern economy. Far from being an Ivory Tower subject with little relevance to everyday life, math provides new tools to help unlock the genetic code of biological materials, analyze environmental factors that affect human health and evaluate risks that affect costs and prices. As Brzustowski stated earlier this year, "By providing new tools to explain or simplify complex real world problems, mathematics plays a key role in every modern science and engineering discipline." But despite its venerable 6,000-year tradition of mathematics, China has in recent years suffered a brain drain of many of its finest mathematical minds. China now risks not having enough mathematicians to educate its massive 1.2-billion population.

51. Workshop On Scientific Computing, 2001 Information http//www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~icwaa01/; The Second International Congressof chinese mathematicians. December 1722, 2001, The Grand Hotel, Taipei. http://www.math.cuhk.edu.hk/conference/dec2001/

Workshop on Scientific Computing, 2001 December 14, 2001 Chinese University of Hong Kong Room 715, Mong Man Wai Building Objective: This one-day workshop is the sequel to the series of workshops on Scientific Computing that were held in Hong Kong in the past ten years. It aims to promote research interest in scientific computation for local mathematicians and engineers and to foster contacts and exchanges with experts from other parts of the world. Invited Speakers: Zhi-ming Chen (Academia Sinica, China) Graeme Fairweather (Colorado School of Mines, USA) Gene Golub (Stanford University, USA) Lizhi Liao (Hong Kong Baptist University) Esmond Ng (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) Kwai-Lam Wong (University of Tennessee, USA) Jun Zou (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Organizing Committee: The workshop is organized by Raymond Chan (CUHK), Franklin Luk (CUHK), Michael Ng (HKU), Wei-Wei Sun (CityU) and Tao Tang (HKBU). Sponsors: The workshop is sponsored by the Departments of Mathematics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, and University of Hong Kong and also by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It is one of the activities to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Faculty of Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Program: Time Speaker and Title of Talk Gene Golub (Stanford University, USA)

52. Untitled Since its beginning, famous chinese mathematicians Hua Lookeng, Wu Wen-tsun, WangYuan, Yang Lo, Chang Kung-ching and Chen Jing-run had been its chief editors http://cauchy.math.udel.edu/cmath/bb/bbs/4.html

Acta Mathematica Sinica, directed by the Chinese Mathematical Society, is the most influential mathematical journal in China. It has a long history, and is well known for the high-level research papers it published. Since its beginning, famous Chinese mathematicians Hua Loo-keng, Wu Wen-tsun, Wang Yuan, Yang Lo, Chang Kung-ching and Chen Jing-run had been its chief editors. In 1985, Acta Mathematica Sinica initiated an English edition (Acta Mathematica Sinica, New Series) to promote the interactions between Chinese and international mathematical research. Now this English edition is undergoing an important reform. Beginning in 1999, it will be named Acta Mathematica Sinica, English Series, and will be published by the well-known Springer-Verlag. A new Editorial Board has been organized for the English Series, which consists of Chinese mathematicians both in China and overseas. The new Board will be working hard to boost the English Series to one of the highest-level mathematical journals in the world. For this aim, only research papers meeting the high standards of the Board will be considered for publication.

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54. Www.calink.org/nr/English/1996/5013 of lines 1. Announcement from NSFC of The First Conference of Young chinese mathematiciansin North America .52 2. The http://www.calink.org/nr/English/1996/5013

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55. Recent Faculty Research Prizes At the Second International Congress of chinese mathematicians in Taipei inDecember, 2001, Sijue Wu was awarded the 2001 Morningside Silver Medal in http://www.math.umd.edu/research/maryland/prizes.shtml

Recent Faculty Research Prizes Distinguished University Professor James Yorke has just been named one of the two winners of the Japan Prize for 2003 , awarded by the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan . See this article in the Baltimore Sun and this article in the Washington Post At the Second International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians in Taipei in December, 2001, Sijue Wu was awarded the 2001 Morningside Silver Medal in Mathematics for her work on water wave problems, and Jiu-Kang Yu was awarded the Chern Prize for his work in number theory, algebraic geometry, and representation theory. Stephen Kudla was awarded a Year 2000 Max-Planck-Forschungspreis by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Germany for his research in number theory. See the prize citation for a more detailed description. Kudla gave one of the Issai Schur Memorial Lectures in Tel Aviv in March, and the 17th Kuwait Foundation Lecture at the University of Cambridge in June. Sijue Wu has been awarded the Satter Prize of the American Mathematical Society, which is given every two years to recognize an outstanding contribution to mathematical research by a woman in the previous five years. Sijue was honored for "her work on a longstanding problem on the water wave equation." In articles that appeared in

56. Network Of Emerging Scientists, NESD #1060.J40 Imported chinese mathematicians may force American Ph.Ds to resort to teaching highschool, but workers nationwide may find their productivity and wages rising http://psyche.uthct.edu/nes/1996/oct/nesd1060j40.html

This NES Post 1060.J40 was referenced in NESD #1060, but was not given in it's entirety due to length restrictions in the digest. We're pleased to include it for you here in the NES Archives . . . From: "Gene Nelson"

57. When Is A Triangle Not A Triangle chinese mathematicians used similar techniques to calculate terrestrial and celestialdistances, including the distance to the “ends of the earth” and the http://www.cityu.edu.hk/ccs/Newsletter/newsletter5/Triangle.htm

When is a Triangle Not a Triangle? Lisa Raphals and celestial distances, including the distance to the ¡§ends of the earth¡¨ and the ¡§height of heaven.¡¨ They incorrectly assumed that the earth was flat, but correctly assumed that the sun was a finite, and measurable, distance from the earth. Their calculations were less accurate than Eratosthenes¡¦, but no less mathematically well reasoned. Similar Triangles in Greek Astronomy During the third century B.C.E., Greek mathematicians and astronomers developed hypotheses and calculations regarding the motion and sizes and distance of the sun, moon and earth. Aristarchus of Samos (310-230 B.C.E.) is best known as the first Greek exponent of a heliocentric theory, a view that his contemporaries rejected because it conflicted with the commonsense view that the earth did not move. In his one surviving work, he used assumptions and the properties of similar triangles to ¡§demonstrate¡¨ ratios between the diameters of the earth, sun and moon and their distances from each other. For example: ¡§The distance of the sun from the earth is greater than 18 times, but less than 20 times the distance of the moon from the earth.¡¨ The Greek text is a list of procedures for naming points and drawing lines and circles between them, with no visual representation. (Modern editions and translations typically add an illustrative diagram.) The Greek text has the look and feel of a proof by deduction from the properties of similar triangles, rather than calculation from actual measurements.

58. Differential Geometry Authors/titles Apr 2002 flow in higher codimension Authors MuTao Wang Comments To appear in the proceedingsof International Congress of chinese mathematicians 2001 Subj-class http://arxiv.org/list/math.DG/0204

Differential Geometry Authors and titles for Apr 2002 math.DG/0204010 abs ps pdf other Title: Remarks on the Definition of a Courant Algebroid Authors: Kyousuke Uchino Comments: 4 pages Subj-class: Differential Geometry; Symplectic Geometry math.DG/0204013 abs ps pdf other Title: Authors: A. Derdzinski (The Ohio State University), G. Maschler (University of Toronto) Comments: 38 pages, AMSTeX, submitted to the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society Subj-class: Differential Geometry MSC-class: 53B35 53B20 (Primary) 53C25 53C55 (Secondary) math.DG/0204019 abs ps pdf other Title: Authors: Shirley Bromberg Alberto Medina Subj-class: Differential Geometry MSC-class: math.SG/0204032 abs ps pdf other Title: Floer homology of algebraically finite mapping classes Authors: Ralf Gautschi Comments: 36 pages, 8 figures, revised version April 25, 2002 Subj-class: Symplectic Geometry; Differential Geometry MSC-class: math.DG/0204046 abs ps pdf other Title: Rigidity of Riemannian foliations with complex leaves on Kaehler manifolds Authors: Paul-Andi Nagy Comments: 9 pages, latex 2e

59. Chinese Problems and solutions are presented in the text, and since the answers can be difficultto understand, different chinese mathematicians over the years have http://www.deltacollege.org/dept/basicmath/Chinese.htm

Chinese Fraction Reducing Description: This lesson describes a method for reducing fractions used by the Chinese people as early as the first century AD. The method involves finding a common divisor, then reducing the fraction by that divisor. Curriculum Objectives: To introduce students to the concept of reducing or simplifying fractions. To show students a way to find the common divisor of a fraction. To expose students to a mathematical process from a non-European culture. Key Words: fractions simplifying fractions reducing fractions common divisor numerator denominator division Suggested Use: Chinese Fraction Reducing could be used in a basic mathematics, prealgebra or algebra course when simplifying or reducing fractions is being instructed or reviewed. CHINESE FRACTION REDUCING Near the beginning of the first century AD, about 2000 years ago, the Chinese mathematical text called the Chiu Chang was written. No one knows for sure who wrote the text, which contains nine chapters of mathematical topics important to Chinese society at the time. Problems and solutions are presented in the text, and since the answers can be difficult to understand, different Chinese mathematicians over the years have supplied commentary and helped to make the problems and solutions clearer. The first chapter, called Fang thien (Land Surveying), is mostly concerned with calculating the areas of fields (thien) using the basic unit of measurement, the fang (square unit). This chapter also discusses methods for working with fractions, including a way for simplifying (reducing) them. If you have a reducible fraction called m/n, the rule from the Chinese text for reducing m/n is this:

60. News & Views - Two Mathematicians Awarded Fields Medal Prize (8/20/2002) More than 2,000 foreign mathematicians and over 1,000 chinese mathematiciansattended this academic gathering, which is held every four years. http://www.chinahouston.org/news/2002820120423.html

Two Mathematicians Awarded Fields Medal Prize (8/20/2002) Franch's Laurent Lafforgue and Vladimir Voevododsky from Russia won the 2002 Fields Medal Prize at the opening ceremony of the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians. Chinese President Jiang Zemin awarded the Fields medalists together with Palles, the president of the International Mathematics Union. Madhu Sudam from the United Sates won the Nevanlinna Prize. The 24th International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), the first ever held in China, opened Tuesday in the Great Hall of the People. More than 2,000 foreign mathematicians and over 1,000 Chinese mathematicians attended this academic gathering, which is held every four years. Fields Medal Prize The Fields Medal Prize, regarded internationally as the most prestigious prize in the field of mathematics, is awarded to mathematicians under the age of 40. France's Laurent Lafforgue and Russia's Vladimir Voevododsky became the latest winners of the prize, at the opening ceremony ofthe 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) here Tuesday. The prize, named in honor of Professor John Charles Fields, a Canadian mathematician, was formally established at the 1932 ICM and first awarded at the 1936 ICM.

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