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Li Ye

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Li Ye

 literary name Jingzhai

(born 1192, Luangcheng, Hebei province, China—died 1279, Yuanshi) Chinese mathematician and scholar-official who contributed to the solution of polynomial equations in one variable. When the Mongols invaded his home district in 1233, Li wandered homeless in Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan provinces. During this period he composed his main work, Ceyuan haijing (1248; “Sea Mirror of Circle Measurements”), which contains 170 problems based on one geometric diagram of a circular city wall circumscribed by a right-angled triangle. Although the problems are highly contrived, they enabled Li to list some 692 algebraic formulas for triangular areas and segment lengths. In 1264 Li was appointed to the Hanlin Academy by Kublai Khan. Li strongly criticized the political and intellectual climate of his time, though, and soon used ill health as a pretext to retire and live as a hermit.



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Okuninga omuwiliki gwoshigwana Aalumentu mboka ya li kaayena iilonga noya li ye na okashona lela okugandja kaanegumbo lyawo nokoshigwana oya ningi ngashingeyi aawiliki yoshigwana.
com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Apolo Anton Ohno, right, stumbles in the 1,500-meter semifinal heat against Li Ye.
Okwa li momutumba umwe omo oprojeka yoRainbow kwa li tai popi novatoolinghundana kombinga yoinima ya pamba oufemba wovanhu, noinima ei opamwe nomaufemba ovakainhu oya li ye mu nyakula noya ninga oshilalakanenwa shaye shakula.
 
 
 
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