Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry - Fukagawa Hidetoshi - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691127453 - July 21, 2008
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Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry

Fukagawa Hidetoshi

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Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry

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.

392 pages, 16 color illus. 150 line illus.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 21, 2008
ISBN13 9780691127453
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 392
Dimensions 211 × 262 × 25 mm   ·   1.32 kg
Language English  

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