Person: Xian, Jia

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Jia Xian was a Chinese scholar who wrote some early arithmetic books. He had an early version of Pascal's triangle.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born about 1010, China. Died about 1070, China.

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Ancient Chinese, Chinese, Origin China

Epochs: 1


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Github:
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References

Adapted from other CC BY-SA 4.0 Sources:

  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive