Kambei Mori

In this Japanese name, the family name is "Mōri".

Kambei Mori[1] or Mōri Kambei (毛利 勘兵衛?),[2] also known as Mōri Kambei Shigeyoshi[3] Mōri Shigeyoshi (毛利 重能?),[4] was a Japanese mathematician in the Edo period.[5]

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]

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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]

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Notes

  1. ^ Fukagawa, Hidetoshi et al. (2008). Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry, p. 14 n4. at Google Books
  2. ^ Shen, Kangshen et al. (1999). The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art: Companion and Commentary, p. 39. at Google Books
  3. ^ Smith, David. (1914). A History of Japanese Mathematics, p. 32. at Google Books
  4. ^ Selin, Helaine. (1997). Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, p. 890. at Google Books
  5. ^ Smith, pp. 34-36. at Google Books
  6. ^ Horiuchi, Annick. (1994). Les Mathematiques Japonaises a L'Epoque d'Edo (1600–1868), pp. 30. at Google Books
  7. ^ Restivo, Sal P. (1992). Mathematics in Society and History, pp. 55-56. at Google Books
  8. ^ Restivo, p. 56. at Google Books
  9. ^ WorldCat Identities: 毛利重能 17th cent

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