Sacred mathematics. Japanese temple geometry

by Fukagawa Hidetoshi, Tony Rothman

$35 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008 . 4to, pp. xxiii, 5 , 348; illustrated throughout, some in color; publisher's ochre cloth, dust jacket with light edge wear, else fine. 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

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