The Philosophy of the Ancient Chinese Mathematician Liu Hui

Philosophy and Culture 25 (7):652-659 (1998)
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Abstract

Review of the great mathematician Liu Hui of China's ancient philosophy, including its ontological thinking, the limit on the thinking, logical thinking, and their ideas on the impact of ancient Chinese mathematics and science in the modern sense. That Liu Hui is a unified theory of yin and yang of China's ancient Greek atomism and unique scholar of human history, one of the greatest philosophy. This essay would like to discuss the philosophy of the great ancient Chinese mathematician Liu Hui. It includes a discussion on his ontology, limitation theory, logic, and his influence on ancient Chinese mathematics and modern science. This essay considers Liu Hui to be the only theorist capable of uniting the ancient Chinese theory of Yin and Yang with the atomists of ancient Greece

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