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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Zhu Shijie, Zhang Heng, Zu Chongzhi, Shen Kuo, Shing-Tung Yau, Shiing-Shen Chern, Xu Guangqi, Yi Xing, Guo Shoujing, Gang Tian, Liu Hui, Li Zhi, Chia-Chiao Lin, Ky Fan, Yang Hui, Hao Wang, Li Chunfeng, Peng Shige, Jing Fang, Pao Ming Pu, Feng Kang, Hua Luogeng, Chen Jiangong, Wu Wenjun, March Tian Boedihardjo, M. T. Cheng, Wang Yuan, Guofang Wei, Chen Jingrun, Yum-Tong Siu, Fan Chung, Qin Jiushao, Wang Xiaotong, Hu Hesheng, Zhan Tao, Jia Xian, Shou-Wu Zhang, Shi Zhongci, Sun Zhiwei, Daqing Wan, C. C. Li, Qiang Du, Zhu Xiping, Jian-Shu Li, Su Buqing, Huang Daren, Pan Chengdong, Wei-Liang Chow, Xiong Qinglai, Jia Rongqing, Li Shanlan, Gu Chaohao, Wang Fan, Jie-zhong Zou, Zu Gengzhi, Zeng Jiongzhi, Ke Zhao, Sun Tzu, Sun Zhihong, Sun Guangyuan, Jinchao Xu, List of Chinese mathematicians. Excerpt: Shen Kuo or Shen Gua (Chinese: pinyin: Sh n Kuo; Wade-Giles: Shen K'uo) (1031-1095), style name Cunzhong ( ) and pseudonym Mengqi (now usually given as Mengxi) Weng ( ), was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Excelling in many fields of study and statecraft, he was a mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, geologist, zoologist, botanist, pharmacologist, agronomist, archaeologist, ethnographer, cartographer, encyclopedist, general, diplomat, hydraulic engineer, inventor, academy chancellor, finance minister, governmental state inspector, poet, and musician. He was the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy in the Song court, as well as an Assistant Minister of Imperial Hospitality. At court his political allegiance was to the Reformist faction known as the New Policies Group, headed by Chancellor Wang Anshi (1021-1086). In his Dream Pool Essays (; Mengxi Bitan) of 1088, Shen was the first to describe the magnetic needle compass, which would be used for navigation (first describ...
