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Wasan : the fascination of traditional Japanese mathematics
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ISBN: 9784866580173 4866580178 Year: 2018 Publisher: Tokyo : Japanese Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture,

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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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The mysterious number 6174 : one of the amazing mathematical topics in daily life
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ISBN: 9784768761748 4768761747 Year: 2013 Volume: 79 Publisher: Kyoto Gendai sugakusha

Les mathématiques japonaises à l'époque d'Edo, 1600-1868 : une étude des travaux de Seki Takakazu (?-1708) et de Takebe Katahiro (1664-1739)
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ISBN: 2711612139 9782711612130 Year: 1994 Publisher: Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin,


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Seki, Founder of Modern Mathematics in Japan : A Commemoration on His Tercentenary
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ISBN: 443154724X 4431542728 4431542736 9784431542728 Year: 2013 Publisher: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer,

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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.

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