Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple GeometryPrinceton University Press, 10 d’ag. 2021 - 392 pàgines Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries Japan was totally isolated from the West by imperial decree. During that time, a unique brand of homegrown mathematics flourished, one that was completely uninfluenced by developments in Western mathematics. People from all walks of life--samurai, farmers, and merchants--inscribed a wide variety of geometry problems on wooden tablets called sangaku and hung them in Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines throughout Japan. Sacred Mathematics is the first book published in the West to fully examine this tantalizing--and incredibly beautiful--mathematical tradition. |
Continguts
1 Japan and Temple Geometry | 1 |
2 The Chinese Foundation of Japa nese Mathematics | 27 |
3 Japa nese Mathematics and Mathematicians of the Edo Period | 59 |
4 Easier Temple Geometry Problems | 89 |
5 Harder Temple Geometry Problems | 145 |
6 Still Harder Temple Geometry Problems | 191 |
7 The Travel Diary of Mathematician Yamaguchi Kanzan | 243 |
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Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry Hidetoshi Fukagawa,Tony Rothman Previsualització limitada - 2008 |