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The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art () is a Chinese mathematics book, composed by several generations scholars from 2nd century BCE to the latest 1st century CE in time length. This book is the second earliest surviving mathematical text from China, the first being Suàn shù shū. It lays out an approach to mathematics that centres on finding the most general methods of solving problems, which may be contrasted with the approach common to ancient Greek mathematicians, who tended to deduce propositions from an initial set of axioms.