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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 independently of

Author

Fukagawa Hidetoshi, Tony Rothman, Hidetoshi Fukagawa

Publisher

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400829712

Subjects

Art, Mathematics, Philosophy

Rating

4.22 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14