Kambei Mori also known as Mōri Kambei Shigeyoshi , was a Japanese mathematician in the Edo period.
Life and work
Some 16th-century sources suggest that Mori studied in China, but such claims are inconclusive or rejected by historians. What is known with certainty is that he started a school in Kyoto and he wrote several influential and widely discussed books which dealt with arithmetic and the use of the abacus.
One of his students was Yoshida Mitsuyoshi, the author of Jinkōki, which is the oldest extant Japanese mathematical text.
Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Kambei Mori, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses 2 works in 3 publications in 1 language and 5 library holdings.
OCLC 026976775, written division
See also
Sangaku, the custom of presenting mathematical problems, carved in wood tablets, to the public in shinto shrines Soroban, a Japanese abacus Japanese mathematics
Notes
References
Endō Toshisada (1896). . Tōkyō: _. OCLC 122770600
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