Ajima Naonobu

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In this Japanese name, the family name is Ajima.

Ajima Naonobu (安島 直円, Ajima Naonobu^?, 1732 – 1798) was a Japanese mathematician of the Edo period.

The Naonobu crater on the Moon is named after his given name.

[edit] References

• http://www12.plala.or.jp/m-light/Nomenclature.htm (in Japanese)

[edit] Further reading

• Oya, Shin'ichi (1970). "Ajima Naonobu". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 90-91. ISBN 0684101149.