Abstract: In the Qing Dynasty, a group of scholars who made great achievements in the field of arithmetic emerged in southern Anhui, forming a distinctive Anhui school of mathematics. Within the school, knowledge was transmitted directly by means of family chains and teacher-friend chains. The dissemination and communication also rely on reading, mutual commentary, debate, mutual collation, contribution of prefaces or postscripts, etc. The diversity of communication brought prosperity to the Anhui Mathematics School. In addition, Anhui Mathematics School also interacted with scholars outside Anhui province in a similar way, most of whom are from neighboring provinces of Anhui, which proves the regionality of the academic dissemination and communication. Though this rather closed circle confined the expansion of Anhui Mathematics School as well as its academic broadcasting, it is also conducive to the formation of distinctive academic views and its traditional self-identification.

Key words: school of mathematics in Anhui, southern Anhui, Mei Wending, academic communication