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1182-1135 B.C.
Chinese mystic and author of the I-king or I-ching, which includes some mathematical information. The book discusses the magic square, a matrix in which the sum of all figures added along any straight line is the same. The magic square, which the text attributes to the semi-legendary Emperor Yu (c. 2200 B.C.), is in turn related to the faces of a die.
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