Sacred Mathematics Japanese Temple Geometry

by Freeman Dyson (Foreword), Fukagawa Hidetoshi (Author), Freeman Dyson (Foreword), Tony Rothman (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2008

  $56.69

  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.