Takao Hayashi

Takao Hayashi ( Japanese 林 隆夫 , Hayashi Takao ; born September 1, 1949 in Shiozawa (today: Minami-Uonuma )) is a Japanese historian mathematician and Indologist. He dealt primarily with Indian history of mathematics and specifically the Bakhshali manuscript , the oldest surviving Indian text on mathematics.

Hayashi studied at Tōhoku University with a bachelor's degree in 1974 and a master's degree in 1976, was at the University of Kyoto and received his doctorate in 1985 at Brown University with David Pingree (The Bakhshali Manuscript). Before that, he was at the Mehta Research Institute for Mathematics in Allahabad in 1982/83 . From 1985 to 1987 he taught at the Kyōto Women's University , from 1986 to 1989 he was a lecturer in the history of science at the Dōshisha University in Kyoto, where he was assistant professor in 1989 and professor in 1995.

He was a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Fonts

• Indian Mathematics , in: I. Grattan-Guinness, Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, Johns Hopkins University Press 1994
• The Bakshali Manuscript, an ancient Indian mathematical treatise , Groningen: E. Forsten 1995
• Indian Mathematics , in: Gavin Flood, The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism, Blackwell 2003, pp. 360-375
• Bakhshālī Manuscript , in: Helaine Selin, Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Springer 2008

Web links

• Biography at Prabook

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Takao Hayashi in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)