was a
Japanese
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* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
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
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and
historian
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of
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 ...
. He was born in
Tokushima
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Tokushima Prefecture has a population of 728,633 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,146 km2 (1,601 sq mi). Tokushima Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the nort ...
,
Japan
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.
He was the founder of the ''
Tohoku Mathematical Journal
The ''Tohoku Mathematical Journal'' is a mathematical research journal published by Tohoku University in Japan. It was founded in August 1911 by Tsuruichi Hayashi.
History
Due to World War II the publication of the journal stopped in 1943 wi ...
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References
Further reading
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External links
The Extremal Chords of an Oval, by TSURUICHI HAYASHI, Sendai.A Remark on the integral Equation solved by Mr. Hirakawa, by TSURUICHI HAYASHI in Sendai.
1873 births
1935 deaths
19th-century Japanese mathematicians
20th-century Japanese mathematicians
Historians of mathematics
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