Sacred Mathematics (inbunden, eng)

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.

Format	Inbunden
Omfång	392 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Princeton University Press
Utgivningsdatum	2008-07-21
ISBN	9780691127453