Title: Sacred mathematics
First published: 2008
Description: *Sangaku* are wooden tables describing geometric problems; the tablets were hung in Japanese religious buildings.  This book describes *sangaku* and the mathematics used to pose and solve the problem, and includes *sangaku* problems and their ancient and modern solutions.
Subjects: History, Japanese Mathematics, Mathematics, Mathematics, Japanese, Problems, exercises, Problems, exercises, etc, Geometry, history, Geometry, problems, exercises, etc.
Places: Japan
People: Kazu Yamaguchi (d. 1850)
Time periods: Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
LC classification: QA27.J3 F849 2008