202 BC-186 BC Calculation of the volume of various 3-dimensional shapes Calculation of unknown side of rectangle, given area and one side Using the false position method for finding roots and the extraction of approximate square roots Conversion between different units Mathematics in education The first reference to a book being used in learning mathematics in China is dated to the second century CE (Hou Hanshu: 24, 862; 35,1207). We are told that Ma Xu (a youth ca 110) and Zheng Xuan (127-200) both studied the Nine Chapters on Mathematical procedures. C.Cullen claims that mathematics, in a manner akin to medicine, was taught orally. The stylistics of the Suàn shù shū from Zhangjiashan suggest that the text was assembled from various sources and then underwent codification. See also Chinese astronomy History of mathematics Indian mathematics Islamic mathematics Japanese mathematics List of Chinese discoveries List of Chinese mathematicians Numbers in Chinese culture References Citations Sources Lander, Brian. "State Management of River Dikes in Early China: New Sources on the Environmental History of the Central Yangzi Region." T'oung Pao 100.4-5 (2014): 325–62. Public domain External links Early mathematics texts (Chinese) - Chinese Text Project Overview of Chinese mathematics Chinese Mathematics Through the Han Dynasty Primer of Mathematics by Zhu Shijie