Editing Chinese mathematics (section)

== In education ==
The first reference to a book being used in learning mathematics in China is dated to the second century CE ([[Hou Hanshu]]: 24, 862; 35,1207). Ma Xu, who is a youth {{circa|110}}, and [[Zheng Xuan]] (127–200) both studied the ''Nine Chapters on Mathematical procedures''. Christopher Cullen claims that mathematics, in a manner akin to medicine, was taught orally. The stylistics of the ''[[Suàn shù shū]]'' from Zhangjiashan suggest that the text was assembled from various sources and then underwent codification.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Cullen |first1=Christopher |title=China's early empires: a re-appraisal |last2=Loewe |first2=Michael |date=2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-85297-5 |editor-last=Nylan |editor-first=Michael |series=University of Cambridge Oriental publications |location=Cambridge |chapter=Numbers, numeracy and the cosmos |editor-last2=Loewe |editor-first2=Michael | editor-link1= Michael Nylan | editor-link2= Michael Loewe}}</ref>