Chinese Mathematics

The Chinese numerical system is very simple, but it’s an effective system that goes back to second millennium BCE. They expressed the numbers by adjusting bamboo rods alongside each other to represent the numbers one to ten. They even invented the decimals place value that looks similar to the modern day, this system was very complicated and was adapted by the western world later; but they didn’t have any definition or concept for zero. The Chinese mathematics development was related to the growth of the Chinese empire. The Chinese need for solving equations and discovering new unknown number from common information made the discovery and the use of a sophisticated matrix-based method which it did not appear in the western world until the 18th century.