Sangaku Reflections: A Japanese Mathematician Teaches

by J Marshall Unger

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193916169X
• ISBN13: 9781939161697
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher