Kokon sanpoki
work by Kazuyuki
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Japanese mathematics
- 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 their solution…
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