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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Heisuke Hironaka, Goro Shimura, Teiji Takagi, Seki Takakazu, Kunihiko Kodaira, Toshikazu Sunada, Yozo Matsushima, Kiyoshi Oka, Kenjiro Shoda, Yutaka Taniyama, Kiyoshi Itō, Kambei Mori, Sakabe Kōhan, Takebe Kenko, Masanori Ohya, Koide Chōjūrō, Ajima Naonobu, Kenkichi Iwasawa, Tadatoshi Akiba, Yoshida Mitsuyoshi, Aida Yasuaki, Michio Suzuki, Shokichi Iyanaga, Kurushima Kinai, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Shigefumi Mori, Hōjō Tokiyuki, Mitsuhiro Shishikura, Daihachiro Sato, Wada Nei, Mikio Sato, Tosio Kato, Shizuo Kakutani, Shoshichi Kobayashi, Tetsuya Miyamoto, Kwan-ichi Terazawa, Toru Kumon, Kazuya Kato, Masaki Kashiwara, Hiroshi Toda, Hiraku Nakajima, Yoshio Mikami, Taro Morishima, Masahiko Fujiwara, Masayoshi Nagata, Tadashi Nakayama, Michio Kuga, Kentaro Nagao, Goro Azumaya, Yasumasa Kanada, Joichi Suetsuna, Hiroshi Haruki, Hidehiko Yamabe, Kiiti Morita, Gisiro Maruyama, Kikuo Takano, Arima Yoriyuki, Kōsaku Yosida, Shikao Ikehara, Tomio Kubota, Tadao Tannaka, Hiroshi Okamura, Nobuo Yoneda, Michio Jimbo, Yutaka Yamamoto, Yoichi Miyaoka, Katsuya Eda, Takuro Shintani, Tsuruichi Hayashi, Sōichi Kakeya, Kazuoki Azuma. Excerpt: Seki Takakazu, 1642 - December 5, 1708), also known as Seki Kōwa ), was a Japanese mathematician in the Edo period. Seki laid foundations for the subsequent development of Japanese mathematics known as wasan; and he has been described as Japan's "Newton." He created a new algebraic notation system, and also, motivated by astronomical computations, did work on infinitesimal calculus and Diophantine equations. A contemporary of Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton, Seki's work was independent. His successors later developed a school dominant in Japanese mathematics until the end of the Edo period. While it is not clear how much of the achievements of wasan are actually Seki's, since many of them...
