Editing Chinese mathematics (section)

==Tang dynasty==
By the [[Tang dynasty]] study of mathematics was fairly standard in the great schools. [[The Ten Computational Canons]] was a collection of ten Chinese mathematical works, compiled by early Tang dynasty mathematician Li Chunfeng (李淳風 602–670), as the official mathematical texts for imperial examinations in mathematics. The [[Sui dynasty]] and Tang dynasty ran the "School of Computations".<ref name="KarpSchubring20142">{{Cite book |last1=Karp |first1=Alexander |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MYy9BAAAQBAJ&q=wujing+boshi&pg=PA59 |title=Handbook on the history of mathematics education |last2=Schubring |first2=Gert |date=2014 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-4614-9155-2 |location=New York |pages=59}}</ref>

[[Wang Xiaotong]] was a great mathematician in the beginning of the [[Tang dynasty]], and he wrote a book: [[Jigu Suanjing]] (''Continuation of Ancient Mathematics''), where numerical solutions which general cubic equations appear for the first time.{{sfn|Mikami|1913|p=53}}

The Tibetans obtained their first knowledge of mathematics (arithmetic) from China during the reign of [[Namri Songtsen|Nam-ri srong btsan]], who died in 630.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Tibet|display=Tibet s.v. History |volume=26 |page=926 |quote=... gNam-ri srong btsan, who died in 630. During his reign the Tibetans obtained their first knowledge of arithmetic and medicine from China.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924005813591 |title=The Life of the Buddha and the early history of his order: derived from Tibetan works in the Bkah-hgyur and Bstan-hgyur followed by notices on the early history of Tibet and Khoten |publisher=K. Paul, Trench, Trübner |year=1907 |isbn=9780415244824 |page=211 |translator-last=Rockhill |translator-first=William Woodville  |quote=sixth century the tibetans obtained their first knowledge of arithmetic and medicine from the chinese. |access-date=2011-07-01 |translator-last2=Leumann |translator-first2=Ernst  |translator-last3=Nanjio |translator-first3=Bunyiu }}</ref>

The [[Aryabhata's sine table|table]] of [[Trigonometric functions|sines]] by the [[Indian mathematics|Indian mathematician]], [[Aryabhata]], were translated into the Chinese mathematical book of the ''[[Treatise on Astrology of the Kaiyuan Era|Kaiyuan Zhanjing]]'', compiled in 718&nbsp;AD during the Tang dynasty.{{sfn|Needham|1959|p=109}} Although the Chinese excelled in other fields of mathematics such as solid [[geometry]], [[binomial theorem]], and complex algebraic formulas, early forms of [[trigonometry]] were not as widely appreciated as in the contemporary Indian and [[Islamic mathematics]].{{sfn|Needham|1959|pp=108–109}}

[[Yi Xing]], the mathematician and Buddhist monk was credited for calculating the tangent table. Instead, the early Chinese used an [[empirical]] substitute known as ''chong cha'', while practical use of plane trigonometry in using the sine, the tangent, and the secant were known.{{sfn|Needham|1959|pp=108–109}} Yi Xing was famed for his genius, and was known to have calculated the number of possible positions on a go board game (though without a symbol for zero he had difficulties expressing the number).