Timeline for What is the history of the name "Chinese remainder theorem"?
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| Jan 22, 2010 at 10:16 | comment | added | user709 | Why is CRT attributed to Sun Zi? This certainly appears in Sun Zi Suan Jing, but there are also other stories related to CRT. Actually, CRT is often known as the "Han Xin Dian Bing" problem in China (Han Xin, a Han Dynasty general, counting the number of soldiers), and Han Xin lives some time around ~200 BC. The credibility of such folklore can be questioned though. | |
| Jan 16, 2010 at 19:24 | comment | added | Jonas Meyer | I had a problem with a link with parentheses before, and I found that replacing '(' with '%28' and ')' with '%29' works. | |
| Jan 16, 2010 at 19:13 | comment | added | Jonas Meyer | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu_%28mathematician%29 | |
| Jan 16, 2010 at 11:44 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | It happens to me to. For some reason MO has decided not to include the _(mathematician) as part of the link. It does seem like a bug. | |
| Jan 16, 2010 at 9:15 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | Annoyingly the link (at least on Safari) does not include the "(mathematician)" and sends one to the military strategist. Is this a bug? | |
| Jan 16, 2010 at 4:25 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | No worries. (This space unintentionally not left blank.) | |
| Jan 16, 2010 at 4:23 | comment | added | Jonas Meyer | I was really trying to split hairs. Having thought more, I agree that it is relevant, and that my language was too strong (sorry Anweshi!). | |
| Jan 16, 2010 at 4:10 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | Although this is not the complete answer, the identity of the Chinese mathematician who is thought to have first proved the theorem has to be relevant to the question! | |
| Jan 16, 2010 at 4:10 | comment | added | Jonas Meyer | Anweshi had something about these in a previous version, but he perhaps overindulged my nitpicking and removed it. Seeing it reposted shows me my error in stifling interesting related info. | |
| Jan 16, 2010 at 4:07 | comment | added | Anweshi | I had also mentioned him; but had to take it down by the objections of Jonas Meyer! | |
| Jan 16, 2010 at 4:06 | history | answered | Pete L. Clark | CC BY-SA 2.5 |