About Kikuo Takano
Lived 1927 – 2006 (aged 78). Kikuo Takano was a Japanese mathematician, poet, lyricist and writer.
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 day after Japan had ended its role in World War II. Being inspired from surrealism and Heidegger, he wrote poems that ask the meaning of being. He was part of the VOU and Arechi poetry groups, and was awarded the Attilio Bertolucci Award for his poetry.
Takano also discovered a Machin-like formula for calculating pi.
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Japanese poet and mathematician (1927-2006)
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Kikuo Takano was born on 20 November 1927.
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Kikuo Takano died on 1 May 2006.
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Kikuo Takano was a mathematician, poet, lyricist and writer.
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Kikuo Takano was Japanese.
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