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Table of Contents:

• Takebe Katahiro and his times
• Takebe Katahiro
• A man of his times: a survey of his life and mathematical thought / Tsukane Ogawa
• Seki Takakazu and Takebe Katahiro
• Two different types of mathematicians / Kenji Ueno
• On the relation between point, indivisible and infinitely small in western mathematics/ Eberhard Heinrich Knobloch
• Takebe Katahiro's inductive methods of numerical calculation in comparison with Jacobi Bernouilli's Ars Conjectandi of 1713/ Chikara Sasaki
• Determinants by Seki Takakazu from the group-theoretic viewpoint / Naoki Osada
• Takebe Katahiro and the Shoushili Calendar / Zelin Xu
• Takebe Katahiro and Nakane Genkei / Tatsuhiko Kobayashi
• A comparative study of the Huangyu Quanlantu and Takebe Katahiro's Kyōhō Map of Japan / Rina Sa
• Joseon
• The Mathematics of the Joseon dynasty
• about the Tianyuanshu / Young Wook Kim
• Solving equations in the early 18th century East Asia / Sung Sa Hong
• Nam Byeong-gil (1820-1869): a Confucian mathematician and a "promoter" of mathematics in late Joseon period / Jia-Ming Ying
• China
• Assessing the accuracy of ancient eclipse predictions / David Mumford
• On the Litian problem of bamboo slips of the Qin Dynasty collected by Peking University / Makoto Tamura
• The Methods of constructing magic squares in the Chinese book San-san Deng-shu Tu / Shirong Guo

• Chinese mathematics and western mathematics integrated in the Tongwen Suanzhi / Zhigang Ji
• Modern East Asia
• Some aspects of the mathematical exchanges between China and Japan in modern times / Wenlin Li
• On the table of trigonometric functions that was introduced first to Japan / Jun Ozone
• Solving Sangaku with traditional technique / Rosalie Joan Hosking
• Kyū-renkan
• the Arima sequence / Steffen Döll and Andreas M. Hinz
• Western mathematics on Japanese soil - A history of teaching and learning of mathematics in modern Japan / Osamu Kota
• Hayashi Tsuruichi and the success of the Tôhoku Mathematical Journal as a publication / Harald Kümmerle
• Appendix. Three key volumes from the Taisei Sankei
• Methods for a circle, Volume 12 of the Taisei Sankei / Tsukane Ogawa and Mitsuo Morimoto
• The theory of well-posed equations, Volume 17 of the Taisei Sankei /
• Mitsuo Morimoto and Yasuo Fuji
• The fifteen examples of algebraic equations, Volume 19 of the Taisei Sankei / Mitsuo Morimoto and Yasuo Fuji.

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Contributors:

Ogawa, Tsukane, 1954- , editor

Morimoto, Mitsuo, 1942- , editor

Takebe, Katahiro, 1664-1739 , honouree

International Conference on Traditional Mathematics in East Asia and Related Topics

Meetings:

International Conference on Traditional Mathematics in East Asia and Related Topics (2014 : Tokyo, Japan)

Languages:

English
Japanese

Language Notes:

Item content: English
Translated from (original): Japanese

Related Series:

Advanced studies in pure mathematics (Tokyo, Japan); [volume] 79

Subjects:

Takebe, Katahiro, 1664-1739 — Congresses

Mathematics, Japanese — History — 17th century — Congresses

Mathematics, Japanese — History — 18th century — Congresses

Mathematics — East Asia — History — Congresses

Takebe, Katahiro, 1664-1739

1600-1799

Mathematics

Mathematics, Japanese

East Asia

Genres:

History

Conference papers and proceedings

General Notes:

"A collection of papers contributed by participants at the 'International Conference on Traditional Mathematics in East Asia and Related Topics' held August 25-30, 2014 at Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan ... also coincides with the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Takebe Katahiro (1664-1739) ... the conference was called the 'Takebe Conference 2014.'"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

561 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

QA27.J3 M38 2018

ISBNs:

4864970572 (hardcover)
9784864970570 (hardcover)

OCLC Numbers:

1083508902