Kambei Mori
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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]
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]
- Warisansho (割算書) OCLC 026976775, written division
See also
- Sangaku, the custom of presenting mathematical problems, carved in wood tablets, to the public in shinto shrines
- Soroban, a Japanese abacus
- Japanese mathematics
