Hi! How are you? I’ve been trying not to let the heat get to me, but lately, I feel like the sizzling sunshine is literally going to melt me…

Anyway, before I forget, the main thing I would like to tell you readers today is about an important but scarcely known mathematician, Prof. Kinnosuke Ogura. If you’ve heard of him, you might as well be his relative or, if not, one heck of a math lover! He was born in the middle of Meiji era, as the first son of a wealthy shipping agency. And devoted nearly his entire life to Japan’s mathematical education system and the sciences; making tremendous contributions to the country’s mathematical history. As soon as he finishes his elementary school years, he becomes fed up with science and drops out of middle school to study at a more intellectual environment, the Tokyo Academy of Physics (currently known as Tokyo University of Science). Also being a cultural historian, Prof. Ogura strongly asserted the “significance of popularizing science” and “spreading scientific intentions; wanting to make mathematical perspectives a more standardized way of thinking.”

Here at Museum of Science TUS, we are now exhibiting an 100 years’ worth of history on how the Japan’s mathematical education system has been affected by TUS’s honorable first ever alumnus, Prof. Ogura. 　

So, if you are ever in the middle of Tokyo and looking for a cool quiet, yet edifying experience, this museum is the place to be! And I am sure you will be more than astonished by the fascinating wonders of science.