Nine chapters on mathematical modernity : essays on the global historical entanglements of the science of numbers in China / Andrea Bréard.
2019
QA27.C5 B74 2019
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Title
Nine chapters on mathematical modernity : essays on the global historical entanglements of the science of numbers in China / Andrea Bréard.
Author
Bréard, Andrea, author.
ISBN
9783319936956 (electronic book)
3319936956 (electronic book)
9783319936949
3319936956 (electronic book)
9783319936949
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 281 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-93
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QA27.C5 B74 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
510.9
Summary
The book addresses for the first time the dynamics associated with the modernization of mathematics in China from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from a transcultural global historical perspective. Rather than depict the transformations of mathematical knowledge in terms of a process of westernization, the book analyzes the complex interactions between different scientific communities and the ways in which the past, modernity, language, and mathematics were negotiated in a global context. In each chapter, Andrea Bréard provides vivid portraits of a series of go-betweens (such as translators, educators, or state statisticians) based on a vast array of translated primary sources hitherto unavailable to a non-Chinese readership. They not only illustrate how Chinese scholars mediated between new mathematical objects and discursive modes, but also how they instrumentalized their autochthonous scientific roots in specific political and intellectual contexts. While sometimes technical in style, the book addresses all readers who are interested in the global and cultural history of science and the complexities involved in the making of universal mathematics.-- Provided by publisher
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Transcultural research-- Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context.
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Table of Contents
1 Visions of Antiquity
2 The Ellipse Seen from 19th Century China
3 Filling Euclids Gaps
4 Negotiating a Linguistic Space in-between
5 Discourse Transformed: Changing Modes of Argumentation
6 Fate Calculation : The Mathematics of Divination
7 Data Management and Knowledge Production in Late Qing Institutions
8 Data Management and Knowledge Production in Late Qing Institutions
9 Visions of Modernity.
2 The Ellipse Seen from 19th Century China
3 Filling Euclids Gaps
4 Negotiating a Linguistic Space in-between
5 Discourse Transformed: Changing Modes of Argumentation
6 Fate Calculation : The Mathematics of Divination
7 Data Management and Knowledge Production in Late Qing Institutions
8 Data Management and Knowledge Production in Late Qing Institutions
9 Visions of Modernity.