本成果属于国家自然科学基金项目“《算数书》与先秦数学”(类别:A,批准号:10171107)和德国马克斯·普朗克学会科学史研究所——中国科学院自然科学史研究所伙伴小组(Partner Group of the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences)。本文前两稿分别于2000年8月和2001年10月在北京举行的第六届中国科学技术史学会代表大会和香港举行的第九届国际中国科学史会议上宣读。
Shuihudi’s Bamboo Strips of Qin Dynasty and Mathematics in Pre-Qin Period
Zou Dahai
(Institute for the History of Science, CAS, Beijing 100010)
ABSTRACT:Shuihudi’s bamboo strips of Qin Dynasty have great significance for the Studies of the history of Chinese science and Technology to which has been paid less attention. This paper makes use of these bamboo strips to discuss mathematics in Pre-Qin Period. The high level mathematical methods were taken as a basis of the Qin’ severe laws, while such severe laws facilitated the development of Chinese Mathematics. The development of ancient Chinese mathematics had relation to the Legalists, but the relation was established not in Han Dynasty but in Warring States. To analyzing Qin Laws combining with other literatures such as Zuo Zhuang, the unearthed mathematics book Suanshu Shu, ect, we can do conclude that a great majority of mathematical methods of the Nine Chapters on Mathematical Procedures were acquired before Qin Dynasty. Here, the bamboo strips of Shuihudi provides a firm gauge of time.
KEY WORDS:Shui Hu Di’ bamboo strips of Qin Dynasty, Mathematics in Pre-Qin Period, Nine Chapters on Mathematical Procedures, Suanshu Shu, Legalists