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Yang Hui

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Yang Hui

 literary name Qianguang

(flourished c. 1261–75, Qiantang, Zhejiang province, China) Mathematician active in the great flowering of Chinese mathematics during the Southern Song dynasty. His books are among the few contemporary Chinese mathematics works to survive. A collected edition of his works (1378) was transmitted farther to the east, where it was particularly influential. In Korea it was reprinted during the reign of Sejong in 1433, and it was copied again by the Japanese mathematician Seki Takakazu.



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5) Deng encapsulated these two policy prescriptions into the foreign policy principle of "Tao guang yang hui, you suo zuo wei ", meaning that China should "keep a low profile and bide its time, while getting something accomplished".
Such unapologetically nationalist chauvinism is at odds with the late Deng Xiaoping's old maxim, tao guang yang hui, meaning "hide brightness, nourish obscurity".
 
 
 
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