Sangaku Reflections: A Japanese Mathematician Teaches

During the period of national isolation, a mathematical tradition called wasan flourished in Japan. Though virtually unknown...
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Author: J. Marshall Unger
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Sangaku Reflections: A Japanese Mathematician Teaches by Unger, J. Marshall

Sangaku Reflections: A Japanese Mathematician Teaches

BD$37.66

Sangaku Reflections: A Japanese Mathematician Teaches

BD$37.66
Author: J. Marshall Unger
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
During the period of national isolation, a mathematical tradition called wasan flourished in Japan. Though virtually unknown to Europeans before the Meiji Restoration, its practitioners, the wasanka, produced some results comparable to (and sometimes in advance of) those of mathematicians of the European Enlightment. This volume, a companion to Unger's earlier translation of solutions by Aida Yasuaki (1747-1817), focuses on problems that Aida most likely used as a teacher. Unger explains the reasons for believing this, and sheds further light on the intellectual milieu in which Aida worked by discussing other books by Aida, including one in which he describes Dutch techniques of navigation.

Author: J. Marshall Unger
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
Published: 05/31/2018
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781939161697
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

J. Marshall Unger is Emeritus Professor of Japanese at Ohio State University. His research has focused on the history of Japanese, teaching Japanese as a second language, and writing systems of East Asia. Two of his books, The Fifth Generation Fallacy and Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan, are available in Japanese.


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