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, also known as Yoshida Kōyū, was a Japanese
mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...
in the
Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...
. List of Japanese mathematicians
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Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
 His popular and widely disseminated published work made him the most well known writer about mathematics in his lifetime. He was a student of
Kambei Mori Kambei Mori or , also known as Mōri Kambei Shigeyoshi , was a Japanese mathematician in the Edo period. Life and work Some 16th-century sources suggest that Mori studied in China, but such claims are inconclusive or rejected by historians. Wh ...
(also known as Mōri Shigeyoshi). Along with Imamura Chishō and Takahara Kisshu, Yoshida became known to his contemporaries as one of "the Three Arithmeticians." 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 The is an abacus developed in Japan. It is derived from the History of Science and Technology in China, ancient Chinese suanpan, imported to Japan in the 14th century. Like the suanpan, the soroban is still used today, despite the proliferation ...
arithmetic Arithmetic () is an elementary part of mathematics that consists of the study of the properties of the traditional operations on numbers— addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, and extraction of roots. In the 19th ...
, including square and cube root operations.


Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Yoshida Mitsuyoshi,
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encompasses roughly 20+ works in 30+ publications in 1 language and 40+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities 吉田光由 1598-1672
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OCLC 22023455088
* 1659 —
OCLC 22057549632
* 1818 —
OCLC 22057124215
* 1850 —
OCLC 22055982082


See also

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Sangaku Sangaku or San Gaku ( ja, 算額, lit=calculation tablet) are Japanese geometrical problems or theorems on wooden tablets which were placed as offerings at Shinto shrines or Buddhist temples during the Edo period by members of all social classes ...
, the custom of presenting mathematical problems, carved in wood tablets, to the public in
shinto shrines A is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more ''kami'', the deities of the Shinto religion. Overview Structurally, a Shinto shrine typically comprises several buildings. The '' honden''Also called (本殿, meani ...
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Soroban The is an abacus developed in Japan. It is derived from the History of Science and Technology in China, ancient Chinese suanpan, imported to Japan in the 14th century. Like the suanpan, the soroban is still used today, despite the proliferation ...
, a Japanese
abacus The abacus (''plural'' abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool which has been used since ancient times. It was used in the ancient Near East, Europe, China, and Russia, centuries before the adoption of the Hin ...
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Japanese mathematics denotes a distinct kind of mathematics which was developed in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1867). The term ''wasan'', from ''wa'' ("Japanese") and ''san'' ("calculation"), was coined in the 1870s and employed to distinguish native Japanese ...


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References

* Endō Toshisada (1896). . 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.
OCLC 318334322
* Restivo, Sal P. (1992)
''Mathematics in Society and History: Sociological Inquiries.''
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
OCLC 25709270
*
David Eugene Smith David Eugene Smith (January 21, 1860 – July 29, 1944) was an American mathematician, educator, and editor. Education and career David Eugene Smith is considered one of the founders of the field of mathematics education. Smith was born in Cortl ...
and
Yoshio Mikami was a Japanese mathematician and historian of '' Japanese mathematics''. He was born February 16, 1875, in Kotachi, Hiroshima prefecture. He attended the High School of Tohoku University, and in 1911 was admitted to the Imperial University of To ...
. (1914)
''A History of Japanese Mathematics.''
Chicago: Open Court Publishing
OCLC 1515528-- note alternate online, full-text copy at archive.org


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoshida, Mitsuyoshi 17th-century Japanese mathematicians 1598 births 1672 deaths Japanese writers of the Edo period