Yang Hui
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1238 – 1298
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Who was Yang Hui?
Yang Hui, courtesy name Qianguang, was a Chinese mathematician from Qiantang, Zhejiang province during the late Song Dynasty. Yang worked on magic squares, magic circles and the binomial theorem, and is best known for his contribution of presenting 'Yang Hui's Triangle'. This triangle was the same as Pascal's Triangle, discovered by Yang's predecessor Jia Xian. Yang was also a contemporary to the other famous mathematician Qin Jiushao.
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