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The blossoming of Japanese mathematics

Peter J. Lu
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Peter J. Lu: Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. plu@fas.harvard.edu

Nature, 2008, vol. 454, issue 7208, 1050-1050

Abstract: A new compilation of the illustrated geometry problems that decorated shrines in seventeenth-century Japan provides puzzles that are still intriguing today, finds Peter J. Lu.

Date: 2008
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