Japanese Temple Geometry

Sensei: Anna Felikson

The book Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry by Fukagawa Hidetoshi and Tony Rothman is the primary source of stories and questions we are going to discuss.
The notes (hand-written notes in Russian) will appear here:

Resources:

Hiroshi Kotera collected several hundreds of images of sangaku tables - out of about 820 that survived (click on hieroglyphs to see the pictures!). The English version of the page contains the map of prefectures in Japan.

Geometry Textbook:

Links to 2025/26 pages: Geometry Around us
Other courses from 2022-2026