Historical Person
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
Gender: Male
A paper dated 10 July 2022 links the Moscow Papyrus formula for a truncated pyramid with Liu Hui's geometric reasoning.
Problem 14 of the Moscow Papyrus preserves an exact rule for a difficult solid-geometry problem.
The Chinese mathematician's dissection arguments suggest ways ancient practitioners could understand such formulas without Euclidean proof.
It argues that historians trained only in Greek geometry and modern algebra overlooked illuminating comparisons between Egypt and China.
