| Needham/NRI2/SCC2/64 contains: |
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| 66 |
Cutting of an anonymous newspaper article entitled ''Pi' can never be worked out' |
| 67 |
Letter from Dr H. E. Stapleton of Jersey, about the Cuniform word for the plumb-line and other matters and copy of Joseph Needham's reply |
| 68 |
Letter from [?] of Paris, France praising Joseph Needham's work and discussing the progress of his own research |
| 69 |
Illustration of a 'magic squares' calculation by ??? [Fei Hai-Chi / Fei Haiji] |
| 70 |
Letter from Dr. H. E. Stapleton of Jersey providing detailed notes of a conversation with Li Yen about early Chinese aquaintance with the Pythagorean Theorem and copy of Joseph Needham's reply |
| 71 |
Photograph of a section of the al-Hariri manuscript, (1237), illustrating the 'Josephus problem' |
| 72 |
Letter from Wen Li-Jung [???/ Wen Lirong / Oon Lay-Yong] of Singapore, about her translation of works by Yang Hui [??] and copy of Joseph Needham's reply |
| 73 |
New China News Agency bulletin article entitled 'Revised Edition of Ancient Chinese Mathematical Books to be Published' |
| 74 |
Note from Victor Meally of County Dublin, Eire, about Chinese puzzles |
| 75 |
Letter from M. S. Makower of London noting misprints in 'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 3' |
| 76 |
Letter from Francis Maddison of the Old Ashmolean, Oxford, about the identification of a 'Korean/Chinese device consisting of rods sliding on strings' |
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine
| Title |
Correspondence with Prof. Lancelot Hogben of the Department of Medical Statistics, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, about his book 'Mathematics in the Making' |
| Reference |
SCC2/64/61 |
| Creator |
Hogben, Lancelot; Needham, Joseph. |
| Covering Dates |
8 Apr. 1959–21 Apr. 1959 |
| Extent and Medium |
6 sheets; Paper |
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| Content and context |
Joseph Needham responds to Hogben's questions on the 'Pythagorean theorem in the 'Chou Pei Suan Ching''; Chinese trigonometry; the relation of positional computations and the zero symbol'. |
| Index Terms |
| Hogben, Lancelot Thomas (1895-1975) zoologist and geneticist |
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