Arrangement And Research On The Suanshushu Written On Bamboo Slips Excavated From Ancient Tombs Of The Han Dynasty At Zhangjiashan

The Suanshushu is the earliest mathematics monograph in China up till the present moment, which was excavated from NO.247 ancient tomb of Han Dynasty at Zhangjiashan, Jiangling of Hubei Province in 1984. It has substantial content, including integer operation together with fraction, algebra operation, and geometry operation of elementary mathematics. The Suanshushu not only represents developmental standard of Chinese mathematics in 2nd century BC, but also reappears the original features of mathematics monographs at that time. As a mathematics monograph prior to the Nine Chapters on Mathematical Procedures, the Suanshushu is of great value to study Chinese ancient history of mathematics. Besides the Suanshushu is more authentic than a document handed down from ancient times, it offers us a favorable opportunity to understand the situation of language use and social development. So it is thus clear that the Suanshushu is undoubtedly of great value to do research on history, linguistics, philology and so on.This thesis intends to arrange and study the whole article of the Suanshushu, strive to turn it into a booklet that not only reflects its academic value but also deserves reading. In addition, the author makes a monographic study on several important problems of the Suanshushu.In the first place, the author will differentiate, collate and translate the version of the Suanshushu, then inquiry into the topics concerning mathematics, linguistics which are involved in arithmetic problems. Especially, the author makes a study of comparing some representative arithmetic problems with the counterparts of the Nine Chapters on Mathematical Procedures, and finally put forward some opinions on the points in contemporary researchers' achievements that are open to question.Secondly in the chapter of research, the thesis will elaborate on the special topics what the author has learned from the process of interpreting the Suanshushu, that is, research into mathematics terms and some problems when regarding it as a transcript so as to explain its value of historical data on mathematics and sociology.