Yoshida Mitsuyoshi
Yoshida Mitsuyoshi (
He was a student of Kambei Mori (also known as Mōri Shigeyoshi). Along with Imamura Chishō and Takahara Kisshu, Yoshida became known to his contemporaries as one of "the Three Arithmeticians."[3]
Yoshida was the author of the oldest extant Japanese mathematical text. The 1627 work was named Jinkōki. The work dealt with the subject of soroban arithmetic, including square and cube root operations.[4]
Selected works[edit]
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Yoshida Mitsuyoshi, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 20+ works in 30+ publications in 1 language and 40+ library holdings.[5]
- 1643 — Jinkōki (
塵 劫 記 ), OCLC 22023455088 - 1659 — Shinpen Jinkōki (
新編 塵 劫 記 ), OCLC 22057549632 - 1818 — Sanpō chiedakara (筭法
智惠 寳 ), OCLC 22057124215 - 1850 — Chikamichi Jinkōki (
近道 塵 劫 記 ), OCLC 22055982082
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]
- ^ List of Japanese mathematicians -- Clark University, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science.
- ^ Horiuchi, Annick. (1994). Les Mathematiques Japonaises a L'Epoque d'Edo (1600–1868), pp. 33-34. , p. 33, at Google Books
- ^ Smith, David. (1914) A History of Japanese Mathematics, p. 35., p. 35, at Google Books)
- ^ Restivo, Sal P. (1992). Mathematics in Society and History. Springer 1992, p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books ISBN 978-0-7923-1765-4
- ^ WorldCat Identities:
吉田 光由 1598-1672
References[edit]
- Endō Toshisada (1896). History of mathematics in Japan (
日本 數學 史 史 , Dai Nihon sūgakush). Tōkyō: _____. OCLC 122770600 - 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
- 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