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Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries Japan was totally isolated from the West by imperial decree. During that time, a unique brand of homegrown mathematics flourished, one that was completely uninfluenced by developments in Western mathematics. People from all walks of life--samurai, farmers, and merchants--inscribed a wide variety of geometry problems on wooden tablets called __sangaku__ and hung them in Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines throughout Japan. __Sacred Mathematics__ is the first book published in the West to fully examine this tantalizing--and incredibly beautiful--mathematical tradition. Fukagawa Hidetoshi and Tony Rothman present for the first time in English excerpts from the travel diary of a nineteenth-century Japanese mathematician, Yamaguchi Kanzan, who journeyed on foot throughout Japan to collect temple geometry problems. The authors set this fascinating travel narrative--and almost everything else that is known about temple geometry--within the broader cultural and historical context of the period. They explain the sacred and devotional aspects of __sangaku__, and reveal how Japanese folk mathematicians discovered many well-known theorems indepe

Who reads Sacred Mathematics : Japanese Temple Geometry?

Author

Fukagawa Hidetoshi; Tony Rothman; Freeman Dyson

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400829712

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Mathematics, Philosophy

Rating

4.22 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14