Sacred Mathematics

Fukagawa Hidetoshi, Tony Rothman

Princeton University Press, 2008

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Presents excerpts from the travel diary of a Japanese mathematician, Yamaguchi Kanzan, who journeyed on foot throughout Japan to collect temple geometry problems. This book explains the sacred and devotional aspects of sangaku, and reveals how Japanese folk mathematicians discovered many theorems independently of mathematicians in the West.

ISBN-13
9780691127453
ISBN-10
069112745X
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2008
Publication date
2008-07-21
Pages
392
Dimensions
262x211x25
Weight
1324