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Part of the book series: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics (PROMS, volume 39)
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Table of contents (35 papers)
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Front Matter
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Contributed papers
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Front Matter
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About this book
Seki was a Japanese mathematician in the seventeenth century known for his outstanding achievements, including the elimination theory of systems of algebraic equations, which preceded the works of Étienne Bézout and Leonhard Euler by 80 years. Seki was a contemporary of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, although there was apparently no direct interaction between them.
The Mathematical Society of Japan and the History of Mathematics Society of Japan hosted the International Conference on History of Mathematics in Commemoration of the 300th Posthumous Anniversary of Seki in 2008. This book is the official record of the conference and includes supplements of collated texts of Seki's original writings with notes in English on these texts.
Hikosaburo Komatsu (Professor emeritus, The University of Tokyo), one of the editors, is known for partial differential equations and hyperfunction theory, and for his study on the history of Japanese mathematics. He served as the President of the International Congress of Mathematicians Kyoto 1990.
Reviews
“This is a valuable book with good contributions to the field of history of mathematics. Specialists interested in the life and mathematical contributions of Seki will of course benefit from it, but interested readers will benefit from it also.” (Toke Knudsen, MAA Reviews, May, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
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Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Eberhard Knobloch
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The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Japan
Hikosaburo Komatsu
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Institute for the History of Natural, Beijing, China, People's Republic
Dun Liu
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Seki, Founder of Modern Mathematics in Japan
Book Subtitle: A Commemoration on His Tercentenary
Editors: Eberhard Knobloch, Hikosaburo Komatsu, Dun Liu
Series Title: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54273-5
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54272-8Published: 17 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54724-2Published: 13 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-54273-5Published: 13 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2194-1009
Series E-ISSN: 2194-1017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 588
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics, general, Algebra, Geometry