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Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry is a book on Sangaku, geometry problems presented on wooden tablets as temple offerings in the Edo period of Japan. It was written by Fukagawa Hidetoshi and Tony Rothman, and published in 2008 by the Princeton University Press. It won the PROSE Award of the Association of American Publishers in 2008 as the best book in mathematics for that year.[1]

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Sacred Mathematics

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Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry is a book on Sangaku, geometry problems presented on wooden tablets as temple offerings in the Edo period...

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by the A-List as one of the 200 best books of 1998. He co-authored Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry with Fukagawa Hidetoshi. Published in 2008...

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Sangaku

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ISBN 9784627015302; OCLC 47500620 __________ and Tony Rothman. (2008). Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry. Princeton: Princeton University Press....

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of Mathology view mathematical concepts and principles as sacred, believing that through the study and application of mathematics, one can gain a deeper...

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Kambei Mori

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al. (2008). Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry, p. 14 n4. Shen, Kangshen et al. (1999). The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art: Companion...

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p. 58, at Google Books Fukagawa, Hidetoshi; Rothman, Tony (2008), Sacred mathematics: Japanese temple geometry, Princeton University Press, p. 79, ISBN 978-0-691-12745-3...

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Muramatsu Shigekiyo

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