This paper was completed, while I was spending a week at the Fondation des Treilles, Tourtour. It is my pleasure to thank this institution for its hospitality. I am grateful to John McCleary for his help in the process of polishing the English.
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Chemla, K. (2005). The Interplay Between Proof and Algorithm in 3rd Century China: The Operation as Prescription of Computation and the Operation as Argumento. In: Mancosu, P., Jørgensen, K.F., Pedersen, S.A. (eds) Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics. Synthese Library, vol 327. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3335-4_7
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