In terms of the social background for producing specialists in mathematics, there were several contributing factors: the active money economy; the production of territorial maps of provinces; and demand for land surveying for the purpose of new field development and so on.
数学の専門家を輩出しえた社会的背景としては、貨幣経済の興隆の他、国絵図作成、新田開発などのための測量に対する需要があると推測される。