thumb|Sangaku dedicated at Enmanji Temple in Nara city, Japan. The mathematics that developed in Japan during the Edo period (1603-1887) is independent of Western mathematics; To this period belongs the mathematician Seki Takakazu, of great influence, for example, in the development of wasan (traditional Japanese mathematics), and whose discoveries (in areas such as integral calculus), are almost simultaneous with contemporary European mathematicians such as Gottfried Leibniz.
thumb|Sangaku dedicated at Enmanji Temple in Nara city, Japan. The mathematics that developed in Japan during the Edo period (1603-1887) is independent of Western mathematics; To this period belongs the mathematician Seki Takakazu, of great influence, for example, in the development of wasan (traditional Japanese mathematics), and whose discoveries (in areas such as integral calculus), are almost simultaneous with contemporary European mathematicians such as Gottfried Leibniz.