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"Wasan--a unique form of Japanese mathematics--was developed during the Edo period (1603-1868), a time when the entire country was isolated from the rest of the world. Mathematics was enjoyed as a form of entertainment by adults and children alike and by people of all social classes. Jinkōki, an extraordinary mathematics textbook, was used at private elementary schools called terakoya and became a bestseller that could be found in every household. Furthermore, world-class works were produced by Japanese mathematicians such as Seki Takakazu and Takebe Katahiro. This book explores the beauty and fascination surrounding wasan by providing a guided tour that goes back in time over three hundred years and navigates through the mysterious and incredible world of mathematical wizardry found during the Edo period in Japan"--
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Mathematics --- Mathematical recreations. --- Jeux mathématiques --- Mathematical recreations --- Sūgaku. --- Jeux mathématiques --- J7020 --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- mathematics --- J7700 --- Japan: Science and technology -- mathematics
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J7020 --- J7000.60 --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- mathematics --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- J7700 --- Japan: Science and technology -- mathematics --- Japan: Science and technology -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867)
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Seki was a Japanese mathematician in the seventeenth century known for his outstanding achievements, including the elimination theory of systems of algebraic equations, which preceded the works of Étienne Bézout and Leonhard Euler by 80 years. Seki was a contemporary of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, although there was apparently no direct interaction between them. The Mathematical Society of Japan and the History of Mathematics Society of Japan hosted the International Conference on History of Mathematics in Commemoration of the 300th Posthumous Anniversary of Seki in 2008. This book is the official record of the conference and includes supplements of collated texts of Seki's original writings with notes in English on these texts. Hikosaburo Komatsu (Professor emeritus, The University of Tokyo), one of the editors, is known for partial differential equations and hyperfunction theory, and for his study on the history of Japanese mathematics. He served as the President of the International Congress of Mathematicians Kyoto 1990.
Mathematicians -- Japan -- Biography. --- Mathematics, Japanese. --- Mathematics --- Mathematicians --- History --- Japanese mathematics --- J7020 --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- mathematics. --- Mathematics. --- Algebra. --- Geometry. --- History. --- History of Mathematical Sciences. --- Mathematics, general. --- Euclid's Elements --- Mathematical analysis --- Math --- Science --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Seki, Takakazu, --- Japan. --- Seki, Kōwa, --- 関孝和, --- 關孝和, --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I͡Aponii͡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japon --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān
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