Zhou Bi Shu Jing in the Western Han Dynasty is one of Shu Jing's ten books. Formerly known as "Zhou Wei". The main achievement in mathematics is the introduction of Pythagorean theorem and its application in measurement. The original book did not prove Pythagorean theorem, but the proof was given by Zhao Shuang in Zhou Zhuan Pythagorean Notes.

The usual methods can be divided into two categories:

Experts in the history of astronomical literature like to use modern astronomical means to calculate the time when it should appear according to some special astronomical phenomena or data recorded in Zhoubingsuanjing, so as to determine its completion time. For example, Japanese scholar Nakata calculated the writing date of the book from the 5th century BC to the 7th century BC according to the distance between the North Star (Xuan Ji in the Arctic) and the North Celestial Pole in the Book of Changes.