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Chapters: Heisuke Hironaka, Goro Shimura, Teiji Takagi, Seki Kōwa, Toshikazu Sunada, Yozo Matsushima, Kunihiko Kodaira, Kenjiro Shoda, Kiyoshi Itō, Yutaka Taniyama, Shokichi Iyanaga, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Tadatoshi Akiba, Hōjō Tokiyuki, Daihachiro Sato, Shigefumi Mori, Kenkichi Iwasawa, Shizuo Kakutani, Tosio Kato, Shoshichi Kobayashi, Mikio Sato, Tetsuya Miyamoto, Michio Suzuki, Toru Kumon, Kazuya Kato, Masaki Kashiwara, Taro Morishima, Masahiko Fujiwara, Yoshio Mikami, Masayoshi Nagata, Hiroshi Haruki, Mitsuhiro Shishikura, Kiyoshi Oka, Wada Nei, Yasumasa Kanada, Joichi Suetsuna, Tadashi Nakayama, Takebe Kenko, Hiraku Nakajima, Hidehiko Yamabe, Kiiti Morita, Kikuo Takano, Gisiro Maruyama, Arima Yoriyuki, Aida Yasuaki, Kōsaku Yosida, Tomio Kubota, Michio Kuga, Tadao Tannaka, Michio Jimbo, Shikao Ikehara, Nobuo Yoneda, Hiroshi Okamura, Ajima Naonobu, Katsuya Eda, Sōichi Kakeya, Kambei Mori, Yoshida Koyu, Tsuruichi Hayashi, Kazuoki Azuma, Yoichi Miyaoka, Goro Azumaya, Hiroshi Toda. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 167. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Seki Takakazu , 1642 December 5, 1708), also known as Seki Kwa ), was a Japanese mathematician in the Edo period. Seki laid foundations for the subsequent development of Japanese mathematics known as wasan; and he has been described as Japan's "Newton." He created a new algebraic notation system, and also, motivated by astronomical computations, did work on infinitesimal calculus and Diophantine equations. A contemporary of Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton, Seki's work was independent. His successors later developed a school dominant in Japanese mathematics until the end of the Edo era. While it is not clear how much of the achievements of wasan are actually Seki's, since many of them appear only in writings with his pupils, some of t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=532653 ... Read more

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