Kambei Mori Explained

Kambei Mori^[1] or,^[2] also known as Mōri Kambei Shigeyoshi^[3],^[4] was a Japanese mathematician in the Edo period.^[5]

Life and work

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

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]

• OCLC 026976775, written division

See also

• Sangaku, the custom of presenting mathematical problems, carved in wood tablets, to the public in shinto shrines
• Soroban, a Japanese abacus
• Japanese mathematics

References

• Endō Toshisada (1896). . Tōkyō: _____. OCLC 122770600
• Fukagawa, Hidetoshi and Tony Rothman. (2008). Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ; [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. ; OCLC 318334322
• Restivo, Sal P. (1992). Mathematics in Society and History: Sociological Inquiries. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ; OCLC 25709270
• Selin, Helaine. (1997). Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Dordrecht: Kluwer/Springer. ; 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. ; ; [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

External links

• Sangaku

Notes and References

1. Fukagawa, Hidetoshi et al. (2008). , p. 14 n4.
2. Shen, Kangshen et al. (1999).
3. Smith, David. (1914).
4. [Helaine Selin|Selin, Helaine]
5. Smith,
6. [Annick Horiuchi|Horiuchi, Annick]
7. Restivo, Sal P. (1992).
8. Restivo,
9. http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities