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Aug 03, 2016 Jean Constant rated it it was amazing

I set the date to today because this is the kind of book I go back again and again - for my work, to relax, or just to enjoy a precious minute out of my world. Sometimes I look at the line geometry as art, sometimes I try to solve the problems, sometimes I just read a page or two on the very rich cultural background. T.Rothman & H. Kukagawa collaboration goes many years back, they are passionate about their subject. It shows!
I owe the authors my discovery of the Sangaku tradition - or geometry i I set the date to today because this is the kind of book I go back again and again - for my work, to relax, or just to enjoy a precious minute out of my world. Sometimes I look at the line geometry as art, sometimes I try to solve the problems, sometimes I just read a page or two on the very rich cultural background. T.Rothman & H. Kukagawa collaboration goes many years back, they are passionate about their subject. It shows!
I owe the authors my discovery of the Sangaku tradition - or geometry inscribed wooden tablets. They were the inspiration for several of my published work. Even my students in Visual Communication owe them some gratitude, sailing through some complex and challenging technical practices and using this fun and creative way to deliver both sound mathematics and colorful, inspirational messages.
Here are two monographs I did exploring some of the book's geometry examples.
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This is the book John got for Joanna when she left our team.

It reports on some of the math that came out of Japan during the long period when Japan was having no contact with the Western world. Very cool stuff in the problems, and there are lots of them---not really for reading straight through. Some of the prose is just a little weird. Turns out that while Japan was isolating itself from the world (maybe 1400--1850), it was developing its own quirky math. They sort of almost got calculus. They

This is the book John got for Joanna when she left our team.

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Jul 01, 2011 Paul rated it really liked it

Very interesting. Could have better illustrations.