ABSTRACT
In Japan, mathematicians played a leading part in assimilating Western scientific approach and providing an internationally oriented attitude from the mid nineteenth century on. From around 1930 on, they spread contemporary mathematical knowledge by publishing many new textbooks in Japanese. As shown in Chapter 4, some were interested in mathematical economics and were unsatisfied with economists’ use of mathematics. During the 1945–50 period, when Japan was still occupied by the Allied after the Pacific Campaign of World War II, Japanese theoretical economists were making more intensive research in mathematical economics with the cooperation of Japanese mathematicians than ever before.
