Sacred mathematics
Fukagawa Hidetoshi, Tony RothmanSacred mathematics
January 1, 2008Princeton University Press400 pages
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*Sangaku* are wooden tables describing geometric problems; the tablets were hung in Japanese religious buildings. This book describes *sangaku* and the mathematics used to pose and solve the problem, and includes *sangaku* problems and their ancient and modern solutions.
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