Liu Hui

Liu Hui

Liu Hui (fl.  3rd century CE) was a Chinese mathematician who published a commentary in 263 CE on Jiu Zhang Suan Shu (The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art). He was a descendant of the Marquis of Zixiang of the Eastern Han dynasty and lived in the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period (220–280 CE) of China. His major contributions as recorded in his commentary on The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art include a proof of the Pythagorean theorem, theorems in solid geometry, an improvement on Archimedes's approximation of π, and a systematic method of solving linear equations in several unknowns. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Liu Hui has received more than 214,092 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Liu Hui is the 134th most popular mathematician, the 235th most popular biography from China (down from 225th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Chinese Mathematician.

Liu Hui is most famous for his book "Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art".