1. the real sicence
... of China. Firstly, the sciences were extremely weak especially in mathematics in the 19th century. "One of the serious problems in Chinese mathematics was the absence of rigorous proof. Chinese scientists lacked a standard of logical proof provided by Aristotelian logical and they had ... century onwards" (Bekar,carlaw and lipsey) In Personally, despite the very well-developed state of Chinese technology, abstract mathematics was extremely weak - geometry was fragmented and ad-hoc, arithmetics was there but algebra was primitive (partly due to the failure of adopting the system of mathet...
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