Xu Yue was a second-century mathematician born in Donglai, in present-day

Shandong Shandong is a coastal Provinces of China, province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural ...

province,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. Little is known of his life except that he was a student of Liu Hong, an astronomer, and mathematician in second-century China, and had frequent discussions with the Astronomer-Royal of the Astronomical Bureau.

Works

Xu Yue wrote a commentary on '' Nine Chapters on Mathematical Art'' and a treatise, '' Notes on Traditions of Arithmetic Methods''. The commentary has been lost, but his own work has survived with a commentary from

Zhen Luan Zhen Luan (甄鸾) (535 – 566) was a Chinese mathematician, astronomer, daoist and buddhist who was active during the Northern Zhou (557-581) of the Southern and Northern Dynasties period. Born in the Wuji County of the present day Hubei Provi ...

. ''Notes on Traditions of Arithmetic Methods'' mentions 14 old methods of calculation. This book was a prescribed mathematical text for the Imperial examinations in 656 and became one of '' The Ten Mathematical Classics'' (算经十书) in 1084.

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* {{authority control Mathematicians from Shandong 2nd-century Chinese mathematicians