 A crude theology, a purposeless logic, a feeble literature,— these had some standing; but mathematics save for calendar purposes was ever an outcast in the temple and the church, save as it occasionally found some eccentric individual to befriend it...  A History of Japanese Mathematics - Pàgina 15per David Eugene Smith, Yoshio Mikami - 1914 - 288 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
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...with utter disregard of economy. It was considered bad taste to speak of it, and ignorance of the I value of different coins was a token of good breeding....resorted to the process known as Shokei-zan, a scheme of multiplicationJ which seems in some way to have served for the inverse process as well.4 Nevertheless... | |
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