Project III, 2025-2026
Japanese Temple Geometry
Anna Felikson
Description:The project will be centred around sangaku , i.e. Japanese geometrical problems or theorems painted in colour on wooden tablets which were placed as offerings at Shinto shrines or Buddhist temples during the Edo period by members of all social classes. These mathematical activity (on the edge between maths, art and worship) connects to a number of beutiful mathematical ideas, such as continued fractions, golden and silver ratio, Pythagorean triples, Descartes circle theorem, Möbius geometry and Apollonian circle packings...One can look at historical development of these ideas, from easy questions to hardly solvable ones; jump to the recent developments in the related areas of modern maths; investigate how sangaku-like problems would behave in different geometries; or try to design (and solve!) your own sangaku-like problems. |
| Prerequisites: Algebra II. |
Resources:You can start by taking a look at the following:
email: Anna Felikson ---- |