Seki, Founder of Modern Mathematics in Japan A Commemoration on His
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
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Eberhard Knobloch Hikosaburo Komatsu Dun Liu Editors
Seki, Founder of Modern Mathematics in Japan A Commemoration on His Tercentenary
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Eberhard Knobloch • Hikosaburo Komatsu • Dun Liu Editors
Seki, Founder of Modern Mathematics in Japan A Commemoration on His Tercentenary
Editors Eberhard Knobloch Professor Technische Universität Berlin Berlin 10623, Germany
Hikosaburo Komatsu Professor Emeritus The University of Tokyo
Dun Liu Professor Institute for the History of Natural Science Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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