Sacred mathematics
Subtitle: Japanese temple geometry
By: Fukagawa Hidetoshi, Tony Rothman.
Contributors: Rothman, Tony.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780691127453
Subjects: Yamaguchi, Kazu, -- d. 1850.; Mathematics, Japanese -- History.; Mathematics -- Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.; Mathematics -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Genres: Problems, exercises, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: pagenum: ix
title: Forward by Freeman Dyson; pagenum: xiii
title: Preface by Fukagawa Hidetoshi; pagenum: xv
title: Preface by Tony Rothman; pagenum: xix
title: Acknowledgements; pagenum: xxi
title: What Do I Need to Know to Read This Book?; pagenum: xxv
title: Notation; pagenum: 1
title: Japan and Temple Geometry
label: 1; pagenum: 27
title: The Chinese foundation of Japanese Mathematics
label: 2; pagenum: 59
title: Japanese Mathematics and Mathematicians of the Edo Period
label: 3; pagenum: 89
title: Easier Temple Geometry Problems
label: 4; pagenum: 145
title: Harder Temple Geometry Problems
label: 5; pagenum: 191
title: Still Harder Temple Geometry Problems
label: 6; pagenum: 243
title: The Travel Diary of Mathematician Yamaguchi Kazan
label: 7; pagenum: 283
title: East and West
label: 8; pagenum: 301
title: The Mysterious Enri
label: 9; pagenum: 313
title: Introduction to Inversion
label: 10; pagenum: 337
title: For Further Reading; pagenum: 341
title: Index