@article{898602,
      recid = {898602},
      author = {Bréard, Andrea,},
      title = {Nine chapters on mathematical modernity : essays on the  global historical entanglements of the science of numbers  in China /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xv, 281 pages) :},
      abstract = {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.--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/898602},
}