The Intriguing History Of Sangaku: More Than Just Numbers

As to mathematics, people began hanging sangaku in shrines and temples during this genroku period. In those sangaku, they created and solved many interesting problems in. Sangaku, which was imported from the asian continent into japan in the nara period, is the collective name of various amusement arts including, but not limited to, mimicry,. We present a historical account of various mathematical problems described in ”sangaku” (mathematical tablets displayed in shrines and temples in japan) that were hung by many. In 1999 with the dutch digital artist ineke lambers we set out to make a series of end of 20th century sangakus.