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Zu Chongzhi
Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and engineer
Wade-Giles Tsu Ch'ung-chih
born 429, Jiankang 【modern Nanjing, Jiangsu province】, China
died 500, China
Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and engineer who created the Daming calendar and found several close approximations for π (pi).
Like his grandfather and father, Zu Chongzhi was a state functionary. About 462 he submitted a memorandum to the throne that criticized the current calendar, the Yuanjia (created by He Chengtian 【370–447】), and proposed a new calendar system that would provide a more precise number of lunations per year and take into consideration the precession of the equinoxes (equinoxes, precession of the). His calendar, the Daming calendar, was finally adopted in 510 through the efforts of his son, Zu Gengzhi.
Li Chunfeng (602–670) called Zu Chongzhi the best mathematician ever and gave him credit for three approximations of π: 22/7, 355/113, and the interval 3.1415926\\<π\\<3.1415927; the third result remained the best in the world until improved by the Arab mathematician al-Kashi (Kāshī, al-) (flourished c. 1400). Zu also worked on the mathematical theory of music and metrology, and he constructed several devices, such as a semilegendary “south-pointing carriage” (most likely a mechanical device that kept a pointer in a fixed position); the carriage was topped by a symbolic figure that, once properly aligned, would always point to the south. None of his writings has survived.
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