Kambei Mori

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]

In this Japanese name, the surname is Mōri.

Life and work

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]

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.
  2. Shen, Kangshen et al. (1999). The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art: Companion and Commentary, p. 39., p. 39, at Google Books
  3. Smith, David. (1914). A History of Japanese Mathematics, p. 32., p. 32, at Google Books
  4. Selin, Helaine. (1997). Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, p. 890. , p. 890, at Google Books
  5. Smith, pp. 34-36., p. 34, at Google Books
  6. Horiuchi, Annick. (1994). Les Mathematiques Japonaises a L'Epoque d'Edo (1600–1868), pp. 30., p. 30, at Google Books
  7. Restivo, Sal P. (1992). Mathematics in Society and History, pp. 55-56. , p. 55, at Google Books
  8. Restivo, p. 56., p. 56, at Google Books
  9. WorldCat Identities Archived 2010-12-30 at the Wayback Machine: 毛利重能 17th cent

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