Lương Thế Vinh

Lương Thế Vinh (1441–1496) was a prominent Vietnamese scholar and mathematician of the fifteenth century.

Lương Thế Vinh
Lương Thế Vinh's self-portrait in Liên Bảo temple
Born	1441 Cao Phương, Liên Bảo, Vụ Bản District, Nam Định Province
Died	1496 Vụ Bản District, Nam Định Province
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Quốc tử giám of Hanoi

Personal name
Vietnamese alphabet	Lương Thế Vinh
Chữ Hán	梁世榮

Life

Lương Thế Vinh was born in the district of Vụ Bản, Nam Định Province, and during the mid-15th century. He obtained doctorate in 1463 or 1478, during the reign of Le Thanh Tong, the golden era of Vietnamese scholarship. He co-worked with Vũ Hựu, another scholar, and introduced Chinese mathematical methods into Vietnam.

Works

Math:

• Great Compendium of Mathematical Methods–Đại thành Toán pháp (edited).
• Khải minh Toán học

Chèo:

• Hý phường phả lục

Buddhism:

• Thiền môn Khoa giáo

• . Advanced methods of Mathematical Calculus
• . “Các phương pháp tính toán nâng cao”

References

Sources

• Volkov, Alexei (2002), "On the Origins of the Toan phap dai thanh", in Samplonius, Yvonne Dold; Dauben, Josephn W. (eds.), From China to Paris: 2000 Years Transmission of Mathematical Ideas, Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 369–410, ISBN 978-3-515-08223-5
• Volkov, Alexei (2009), "Mathematics and Mathematics Education in Traditional Vietnam", in Robson, Eleanor; Stedall, Jacqueline (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 153–76, ISBN 978-0-19-921312-2
• Volkov, Alexei (2016), "Mathematics in Vietnam", in Selin, Helaine (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (3 ed.), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 2818–2833, ISBN 978-94-007-7748-4