The origin of the Bernoulli numbers: mathematics in Basel and Edo in the early eighteenth century
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The origin of the Bernoulli numbers: mathematics in Basel and Edo in the early eighteenth century
zbMATH Open document ID: 1505.11004
author: Tomoko L. Kitagawa
published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer
publication date: 2022-10-28T00:00:00Z
review text: It turns out that Bernoulli numbers (named after the Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli, the author of \textit{Ars conjectandi} -- 1713) appeared one year prior to Bernoulli's book in the Japanese capital, Edo (today Tokyo), in a posthumous publication, by Takakazu Seki. In the paper under review, the parallel development of mathematics in Basel, Switzerland, and Edo, Japan, is introduced and the global conditions that allowed for multiple origins of mathematical discoveries are highlighted.
reviewed by: Roman Murawski
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11-03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A27
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11B68
zbMATH DE Number: 7609245
zbMATH Keywords: Bernoulli numbers
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s00283-021-10072-y
OpenAlex ID: W3184312416
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DOI: 10.1007/S00283-021-10072-Y
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7609245