Sun Tzu (mathematician)

Sun Tzu or Sun Zi was a Chinese mathematician of the third century CE.

This article is about the mathematician Sun Tzu. For the military strategist of the same name, see Sun Tzu.

His interests were in astronomy. He tried to develop a calendar and for this he investigated Diophantine equations. He is best known for authoring Sun Tzu Suan Ching (pinyin: Sun Zi Suan Jing; literally, "Sun Tzu's Calculation Classic"), which contains the Chinese remainder theorem.

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