Sacred mathematics: Japanese temple geometry

Fukagawa Hidetoshi, Tony Rothman

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Table of Contents:: Foreword / Freeman Dyson
Preface / Fukagawa Hidetoshi
Preface / Tony Rothman
What Do I Need to Know to Read This Book?
Notation
1. Japan and Temple Geometry
2. The Chinese Foundation of Japanese Mathematics
3. Japanese Mathematics and Mathematicians of the Edo Period
4. Easier Temple Geometry Problems
5. Harder Temple Geometry Problems
6. Still Harder Temple Geometry Problems
7. The Travel Diary of Mathematician Yamaguchi Kanzan
8. East and West
9. The Mysterious Enri
10. Introduction to Inversion.
Author/Creator:: Fukagawa, Hidetoshi, 1943-
Contributors:: Rothman, Tony
Languages:: English
Language Notes:: Item content: English
Main Work:: Sacred mathematics: Japanese temple geometry [by Fukagawa, H.]
Subjects:: Mathematics, Japanese — History
Mathematics — Japan — History — Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
Mathematics — Problems, exercises, etc.
Yamaguchi, Kazu, -1850
1600-1868
Mathematics, Japanese
Mathematics
Japan
Genres:: History
Problems and exercises
General Notes:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Physical Description:: xxiii, 348 pages : illustrations some color ; 26 cm
Call Numbers:: QA27.J3 F849 2008
ISBNs:: 9780691127453 (alk. paper)
Library of Congress Control Numbers:: 2007061031
OCLC Numbers:: 181142099