Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics

Title page of the first English edition published in 1977

Original title| Iwanami Sūgaku Jiten (岩波数学辞典)
Publisher| MIT Press

Publication date

| 1954
ISBN| 9780262090162

The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics is a translation of the Japanese Iwanami Sūgaku Jiten (岩波数学辞典). The editor of the first and second editions was Shokichi Iyanaga; the editor of the third edition was Kiyosi Itô; the fourth edition was edited by the Mathematical Society of Japan.

## Editions

* Iyanaga, Shōkichi, ed. (1954) (in Japanese), Iwanami Sūgaku Jiten (1st ed.), Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten
* Iyanaga, Shōkichi, ed. (1960) (in Japanese), Iwanami mathematical dictionary, Edited by the Mathematical Society of Japan. Revised and enlarged, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten
* Iyanaga, Shōkichi, ed. (1968) (in Japanese), Iwanami Sūgaku Jiten (2nd ed.), Iwanami Shoten Publishers, Tokyo
* Iyanaga, Shōkichi, ed. (1977), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics, Volumes I, II, hardback, translated from the 2nd Japanese edition (1st ed.), MIT Press, pp. 1750, ISBN 978-0-262-09016-2, https://archive.org/details/encyclopedicdict0000niho/page/1750
* Iyanaga, Shōkichi; Kawada, Yukiyosi, eds. (1980), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics, Volumes I, II, Translated from the 2nd Japanese edition, paperback version of the 1977 edition (1st ed.), MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-59010-5, https://archive.org/details/encyclopedicdict0000niho
* (in Japanese) Sūgaku Jiten (3rd ed.), Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1985, ISBN 978-4-00-080016-7
* Itô, Kiyosi, ed. (1987), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics. Vol. I--IV, Hardback, Translated from the Japanese 3rd edition (2nd ed.), MIT Press, pp. 2148, ISBN 978-0-262-09026-1, archived from the original on 2011-06-29, https://web.archive.org/web/20110629143131/http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=7771
* Itô, Kiyosi, ed. (1993), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics. Vol. I--II, Paperback, Translated from the Japanese 3rd edition (2nd ed.), MIT Press, pp. 2148, ISBN 0-262-59020-4, https://books.google.com/books?id=WHjO9K6xEm4C ; paperback version of the 1987 edition
* (in Japanese) Iwanami Sūgaku Jiten (Fourth ed.), Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2007, ISBN 978-4-00-080309-0

## References

* Dieudonné, Jean (1979), "Reviews: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics", The American Mathematical Monthly 86 (3): 232–233, doi:10.2307/2321544, ISSN 0002-9890
* Halmos, Paul (1981), "About books: review of Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics", The Mathematical Intelligencer 3 (3): 138–140, doi:10.1007/BF03022868, ISSN 0343-6993

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