Sangaku Reflections: A Japanese Mathematician Teaches: 189 (Cornell East Asia Series) - Hardcover

Unger, J. Marshall

 
9781939161697: Sangaku Reflections: A Japanese Mathematician Teaches: 189 (Cornell East Asia Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 193916169X ISBN 13: 9781939161697
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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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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Publisher
Cornell East Asia Series
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
193916169X
ISBN 13 
9781939161697
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
112