Seki, Founder of Modern Mathematics in Japan A Commemoration on His Tercentenary /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Knobloch, Eberhard (Editor), Komatsu, Hikosaburo (Editor), Liu, Dun (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 39
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebra.; Geometry.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Mathematics, general.

Seki was a Japanese mathematician in the seventeenth century known for his outstanding achievements, including the elimination theory of systems of algebraic equations, which preceded the works of Étienne Bézout and Leonhard Euler by 80 years. Seki was a contemporary of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wi...