Titlebook: Seki, Founder of Modern Mathematics in Japan; A Commemoration on H Eberhard Knobloch,Hikosaburo Komatsu,Dun Liu Conference proceedings 2013

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Leibniz’s Theory of Elimination and Determinantsthing relating to determinants and their application has been found in his (viz. Leibniz’s) manuscripts until now” [19, p. 125]. Later on, Morris Kline, hinting at Leibniz’s often cited letter dating from 1693 to L’Hospital, erroneously wrote in 1972: “The solutions of simultaneous linear equations

一再遛

FLORA

interlude

Nomadic

2194-1009 stems 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 Mathe

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Power Series Expansions in India Around A. D. 1400.After taking a glance at Mādhava himself and his school, I will explain in this paper howMādhava derived the power series of the circumference C of a circle with diameter d together with the last corrective term:. according to the commentary . (ca. AD 1550), composed by Śa.kara, who was a scholar situated near the end of the Mādhava school.

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gratify

On the Alternative Algorithm of the 7th Problem in the Sea Island Mathematical CanonThe alternative algorithm of the 7th problem in Liu Hui’s Sea Island Mathematical Canon is mathematically incorrect. In this short note we try to restore it, based on a characteristic of mathematical formulas by Liu Hui.

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Résumé of Works on Mathematics of Seki TakakazuWe shall describe briefly the contents of the Résumé of Works on Mathematics (.) of Seki Takakazu (ca.1640–1708). This monograph is the posthumous publication of the great mathematician of the . period and contains most of his representative works on mathematics.