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Sawaguchi Kazuyuki

Japanese mathematician

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contribution to equation theory

  • Counting boards and markers, or counting rods, were used in China to solve systems of linear equations. This is an example from the 1st century ce.
    In East Asian mathematics: The elaboration of Chinese methods

    Sawaguchi Kazuyuki’s Kokon sanpoki (1671; “Ancient and Modern Mathematics”) pointed out that “erroneous” problems could have more than one solution (in other words, equations could have more than one root), but he left unanswered difficult problems involving simultaneous equations of the nth degree. Equations for…

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