Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry

by Tony Rothman and Hidetoshi Fukagawa

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069112745X
• ISBN13: 9780691127453
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.4" x 9.9"