- Kikuo Takano
Kikuo Takano was a Japanese poet and mathematician. He was born on
Sado Island in 1927. He graduated from Utsunomiya Agricultural College in 1948.He began to write poems from the next day Japan had ended role in World War II. Being inspired from
surrealism andHeidegger , he wrote poems that asks the meaning ofbeing . He was awarded the Attilio Bertolucci Award for his poetry.Takano also discovered a
Machin-like formula for calculatingpi . [ [http://people.bath.ac.uk/st236/pi_history.html Pi - History ] ]Bibliography
*cite book
last = Takano
first = Kikuo
title = Toward Meaning: Poems of Kikuo Takano
publisher = P.S., A Press, Middletown Springs, VT (see [http://www.peavyandsmith.com] )
year = 2004
id = ISBN 1-889087-10-6, OCLC|57022910
*cite book
last = Takano
first = Kikuo
title = In the High Sky - Selected Poems (Italian)
publisher = Mondadori (Italy)
year = 2003
id = ISBN 88-04-51316-0, OCLC|59881533External links
* [http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~yp5k-tkn/index-e.html Brief description]
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