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About Li Ye
Li Ye, born Li Zhi, courtesy name Li Jingzhai, was a Chinese mathematician, politician, and writer who published and improved the tian yuan shu method for solving polynomial equations of one variable. Along with the 4th-century Chinese astronomer Yu Xi, Li Ye proposed the idea of a spherical Earth instead of a flat one before the advances of European science in the 17th century.
Everything about Li Ye →- Occupation
- mathematician, beamter, teacher, philosopher
- Citizenship
- Jin dynasty, Yuan dynasty
- Born
- 1192
- Died
- 1279