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The book is an extremely attractive gateway into the historical questions surrounding the best-known period of wasan, one written from a modern methodological perspective. ... I was delighted and impressed by this book and its contents, with so many points of contact with and development of traditional Chinese mathematical knowledge. (Jiri Hudecek, East Asian, Science, Technology, and Medicine, Issue 37, 2014) The present volume is a very careful English translation of a book which has been first published in French in 1994. ... readers will also get from these a visual apprehension of what Japanese mathematical texts physically looked like during the Edo period. Anyone interested in Japanese mathematics and its multifarious aspects ... should first have recourse to this outstanding book in as much as his excellent critical apparatus open wide perspectives for future researches in such a domain. (Jean-Claude Martzloff, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1206, 2011)

From the reviews: The present volume is a very careful English translation of a book which has been first published in French in 1994. ... readers will also get from these a visual apprehension of what Japanese mathematical texts physically looked like during the Edo period. Anyone interested in Japanese mathematics and its multifarious aspects ... should first have recourse to this outstanding book in as much as his excellent critical apparatus open wide perspectives for future researches in such a domain. (Jean-Claude Martzloff, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1206, 2011)

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