ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Yang Hui

Simplified Chinese: 杨辉; traditional Chinese: 楊輝; pinyin: Yáng Huī, courtesy name Qianguang (谦光).

Chinese mathematician who is best known for an early treatment of Pascal's Triangle (also known as Yang Hui's Triangle), although acknowledging that it was given an earlier treatment by Chia Hsien in a work which is now lost.

Nationality

Chinese

History

• Born: c. 1238, Qiantang (now Hangzhou), Chekiang province, China
• Died: c. 1298, China

Theorems and Definitions

• Yang Hui's Triangle, a.k.a. Pascal's Triangle

Books and Papers

• 1261: Xiangjie Jiuzhang Suanfa (详解九章算法) (in which Yang Hui's Triangle appears)
• c. 1275: Xugu Zhaiqi Suanfa (续古摘奇算法)
• c. 1275: Suanfa Tongbian Benmo (算法通变本末)

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Yang Hui": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive