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I revised the Wiki page on Jiu Zhang Suan Shu, or The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art. It's arguably the single most important book in the history of classical Chinese mathematics and has often been compared to Euclid's Elements regarding its level of significance on the entire mathematical world of East Asia. I mainly contributed to the page by adding to the history of the translations of the book, some of its major contributions, and its significances. For clarity, the first section is simply a copy of the current Wiki page, and the second section is the edited page with editions bolded, and the third section is just my contributions without the context of the original Wiki page.
The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art (simplified Chinese: 九章算术; traditional Chinese: 九章算術; pinyin: Jiǔzhāng Suànshù; Wade–Giles: chiu3 chang1 suan4 shu1) is a Chinese mathematics book, composed by several generations of scholars from the 10th–2nd century BCE, its latest stage being from the 2nd century CE. This book is one of the earliest surviving mathematical texts from China, the first being Suan shu shu (202 BCE – 186 BCE) and Zhoubi Suanjing (compiled throughout the Han until the late 2nd century CE). It lays out an approach to mathematics that centres on finding the most general methods of solving problems, which may be contrasted with the approach common to ancient Greek mathematicians, who tended to deduce propositions from an initial set of axioms.
Entries in the book usually take the form of a statement of a problem, followed by the statement of the solution, and an explanation of the procedure that led to the solution. These were commented on by Liu Hui in the 3rd century.