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Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry
Fukagawa Hidetoshi
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Description for Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 392 pages, 16 color illus. 150 line illus. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 262 x 211 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1284.
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. Fukagawa Hidetoshi and Tony Rothman present for the first time in English excerpts from the ... Read more
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. Fukagawa Hidetoshi and Tony Rothman present for the first time in English excerpts from the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
392
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691127453
SKU
V9780691127453
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Ref
99-20
About Fukagawa Hidetoshi
Fukagawa Hidetoshi is a retired high-school teacher in Japan, and one of the world's experts on sangaku . He is the coauthor of Japanese Temple Geometry Problems . Tony Rothman is a theoretical cosmologist who lectures in physics at Princeton University. His books include Everything's Relative and Other Fables from Science and Technology .
Reviews for Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry
Winner of the 2008 PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers Now Fukagawa Hidetoshi, a mathematics teacher, and writer Tony Rothman present a collection of Sangaku problems in their book, Sacred Mathematics. The puzzles range from simple algebra within the grasp of any intermediate-school student, to challenging problems that require graduate-school mathematics to solve. Copious illustrations and many ... Read more