Kambei Mori[1] or Mōri Kambei (毛利 勘兵衛),[2] also known as Mōri Kambei Shigeyoshi[3] Mōri Shigeyoshi (毛利 重能),[4] was a Japanese mathematician in the Edo period.[5]
Life and work edit
Some 16th-century sources suggest that Mori studied in China, but such claims are inconclusive or rejected by historians.[6] What is known with certainty is that he started a school in Kyoto and he wrote several influential and widely discussed books which dealt with arithmetic and the use of the abacus.[7]
One of his students was Yoshida Mitsuyoshi, the author of Jinkōki, which is the oldest extant Japanese mathematical text.[8]
Selected works edit
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Kambei Mori, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses 2 works in 3 publications in 1 language and 5 library holdings.[9]
- Warisansho (割算書) OCLC 026976775, written division
See also edit
- Sangaku, the custom of presenting mathematical problems, carved in wood tablets, to the public in shinto shrines
- Soroban, a Japanese abacus
- Japanese mathematics
Notes edit
- ^ Fukagawa, Hidetoshi et al. (2008). Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry, p. 14 n4.
- ^ Shen, Kangshen et al. (1999). The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art: Companion and Commentary, p. 39., p. 39, at Google Books
- ^ Smith, David. (1914). A History of Japanese Mathematics, p. 32., p. 32, at Google Books
- ^ Selin, Helaine. (1997). Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, p. 890. , p. 890, at Google Books
- ^ Smith, pp. 34-36., p. 34, at Google Books
- ^ Horiuchi, Annick. (1994). Les Mathematiques Japonaises a L'Epoque d'Edo (1600–1868), pp. 30., p. 30, at Google Books
- ^ Restivo, Sal P. (1992). Mathematics in Society and History, pp. 55-56. , p. 55, at Google Books
- ^ Restivo, p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
- ^ WorldCat Identities Archived 2010-12-30 at the Wayback Machine: 毛利重能 17th cent
References edit
- Endō Toshisada (1896). History of mathematics in Japan (日本數學史, Dai Nihon sūgakush). Tōkyō: _____. OCLC 122770600
- Fukagawa, Hidetoshi and Tony Rothman. (2008). Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 069112745X; [ OCLC 181142099]
- Horiuchi, Annick. (1994). Les Mathematiques Japonaises a L'Epoque d'Edo (1600–1868): Une Etude des Travaux de Seki Takakazu (?-1708) et de Takebe Katahiro (1664–1739). Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin. ISBN 9782711612130; OCLC 318334322
- Restivo, Sal P. (1992). Mathematics in Society and History: Sociological Inquiries. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 9780792317654; OCLC 25709270
- Selin, Helaine. (1997). Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Dordrecht: Kluwer/Springer. ISBN 9780792340669; OCLC 186451909
- Shen, Kangshen; John N. Crossley and Anthony Wah-Cheung Lun. (1999). The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art: Companion and Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198539360; ISBN 9787030061010; [ OCLC 247590975]
- David Eugene Smith and Yoshio Mikami. (1914). A History of Japanese Mathematics. Chicago: Open Court Publishing. OCLC 1515528 -- note alternate online, full-text copy at archive.org