is a Japanese

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and professor at the Osaka University of Economics, where he teaches mathematics and information. He is known as the "boomerang professor". He has written nine books about the mathematics in daily life. The most recent one, The mystery of five in nature, investigates, amongst other things, why many flowers have five petals.

Biography

* 1967-1971: Faculty of Mathematics, Department of Science,

Kyoto University , mottoeng = Freedom of academic culture , established = , type = Public (National) , endowment = ¥ 316 billion (2.4 billion USD) , faculty = 3,480 (Teaching Staff) , administrative_staff = 3,978 (Total Staff) , students = ...

* 1971-1985: IBM Japan as a Systems Engineer * 1985: Lecturer of Information Mathematics at

Osaka University of Economics , is a private university located in Higashiyodogawa-ku, Osaka, Japan. History It was founded in 1932 as Naniwa Higher Commercial School (浪華高等商業学校). During World War II, most of the students were enlisted. So in 1944 Osaka W ...

* 1995–present: Professor at

* 2005-2006: Visiting fellow at

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

, UK, joined for MMP. Millennium Mathematics Project

Books

50 Visions of Mathematics

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, May 2014,
The Mysterious Number 6174: One of 30 Mathematical Topics in Daily Life
Gendai Sugakusha, July 2013, thum

Papers

General Solution for Multiple Foldings of Hexaflexagons
IJPAM, Vol. 58, No. 1, (2010). 113-124
"19 faces of Flexagons"

Fixed Points in Similarity Transformations
IJPAM, Vol. 56, No. 3, (2009). 429-438.

Articles for Plus Magazine

A bright idea

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, issue 36, University of Cambridge, September 2005.
Mysterious Number 6174

, issue 38, University of Cambridge, March 2006.
Winning Odds
with Steve Humble,

, issue 55, University of Cambridge, June 2010.
Having fun with unit fractions

, University of Cambridge, Feb 2012.
Circles rolling on circles

, University of Cambridge, May 2014.

References

External links

Homepage of Yutaka Nishiyama
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