, also known as Yoshida Kōyū, was a Japanese mathematician in the Edo period. List of Japanese mathematicians -- Clark University, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science. His popular and widely disseminated published work made him the most well known writer about mathematics in his lifetime.Horiuchi, Annick. (1994).
He was a student of Kambei Mori (also known as Mōri Shigeyoshi). Along with Imamura Chishō and Takahara Kisshu, Yoshida became known to his contemporaries as one of "the Three Arithmeticians."Smith, David. (1914) )
Yoshida was the author of the oldest extant Japanese mathematical text. The 1627 work was named Jinkōki. The work dealt with the subject of soroban arithmetic, including square and cube root operations.Restivo, Sal P. (1992).
Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Yoshida Mitsuyoshi, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 20+ works in 30+ publications in 1 language and 40+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities: 吉田光由 1598-1672
1643 — , OCLC 22023455088 1659 — , OCLC 22057549632 1818 — , OCLC 22057124215 1850 — , OCLC 22055982082
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
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References Endō Toshisada (1896). . Tōkyō: _____. OCLC 122770600 Horiuchi, Annick. (1994). Les Mathematiques Japonaises a L'Epoque d'Edo (1600–1868): Une Etude des Travaux de Seki Takakazu (?-1708) et de Takebe Katahiro (1664–1739). Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin. ; OCLC 318334322 Restivo, Sal P. (1992). Mathematics in Society and History: Sociological Inquiries. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ; OCLC 25709270 David Eugene Smith and Yoshio Mikami. (1914). A History of Japanese Mathematics. Chicago: Open Court Publishing. OCLC 1515528 -- note alternate online, full-text copy at archive.org
External links Sangaku