在唐朝的时候,因为封建統治者皇帝要籠絡天下的知识分子,便設立了科举制度,就是以科举取士。所謂科举就是分科选举,当时有天文和数学方面的选举。國家設有数学馆,聘有博士官銜的学者在里面講学,科举选出几十个人到数学館学習,规定他們要学習算經十書。所謂算經就是数学書,好像詩經一样的尊貴。十种数学書的名称据傳說是周髀算經,九章算經,海島算經,五曹算經,孙子算經,夏侯陽算經,張邱建算經,綴術,五經算經,和輯古算術。后來因为讀数学人少,这种选举制度,由停考而廢去,因而夏侯陽算經和綴術在宋朝时候散失了。現在所保存的夏侯陽算經事实上是 During the Tang dynasty, because the feudal ruler emperor wanted to encroach upon the world’s intellectuals, he established the imperial examination system, that is, the imperial examination. The so-called Imperial Examination was a sub-committee election. There was an astronomy and mathematics election at that time. There are mathematics halls in the country. Scholars with doctoral ranks give lectures, and dozens of people in the imperial examinations go to the mathematics hall to study. They are required to study the ten books of the Bible. The so-called Confucian classics is a math book, and it looks like the poem is as honorable. The names of the ten kinds of math books are according to the legend of Zhou Yi’s classics, the nine chapters, the islands, the five Cao’s, the grandson’s calculations, the Xiahou Yang’s classics, the Zhang Qiujian’s classics, the embellishment, and the five classics. And ancient arithmetic. Later, because of the small number of mathematicians, this election system was abolished because of the suspension of examinations. Therefore, Xia Houyang’s sutras and embellishments were lost during the Song Dynasty. The Xiahouyang calculation that is now preserved is actually