The Art of Algebra Year: 1873 Call Number: RBK30001 During the Self-Strengthening Movement, the Qing Dynasty made great efforts to establish translation offices to compile Western books on science, technology, politics and law, and was committed to changing China’s backwardness in science and technology. With the development of compilation work, the knowledge and perspective of Western learning changed the traditional literati style, among which the Tongwen Guan in Beijing and the Translation Department of Jiangnan Arsenal were the most famous. “The Art of Algebra” is a representative work of the cooperation between China and the West at that time. It was translated by British translator John Fryer and Hua Hengfang, a famous mathematician and mechanical engineering expert in the late Qing Dynasty. This book introduced more complex algebraic theories, including formulas for finding roots of cubic equations, continued fraction operations, and indeterminate analysis, laying an important foundation for China’s mathematics education. 141 26
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