Ceyuan haijing
work by Li Ye
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- In Li Ye
…he composed his main work, Ceyuan haijing (1248; “Sea Mirror of Circle Measurements”), which contains 170 problems based on one geometric diagram of a circular city wall circumscribed by a right-angled triangle. Each problem involves two men walking along various roads within the town in order to see one another…
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