我国第一部借贷计算论著——《粟布算草》

THE FIRST DISSERTATIONS ON LOAN CALCULATIONS IN CHINA SU BU SUAN CAO

《粟布算草》是一部专门研究借贷计算的著述。虽成书较晚,但作者们成功地把廉法表、天元术、堆垛术、今有术等中国古代传统数学的优秀方法、应用于借贷中原本、利率、收回数的计算,不但取得完全一致的结果,而且注重计算的程序化。它表明中国传统数学是有生命力的。《粟布算草》在中国数学与金融史上都有积极意义。

Su Bu Suan Cao is a monograph which makes a comprehensive andsystematic study on loan calculations.Although it was published rather late,its writers successfully used traditional Chinese mathematical methods suchas'Lian Fa Biao','Tian Yuan Shu'and'Jin You Shu'to deduce theformulas for the calculation of capital,interest rate and retraceable quantityon the loan.They not only obtained completely unanimous results,but also paidgreat attention to make their calculation methods programmatic.Su Bu SuanCao shows that traditional Chinese mathematics has great vitality and is ofpositive significance in the history of both mathematics and finance of China.