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Synapses are located in our central nervous system where nerve cells connect with each other. “Sin-aps” aims at making connections in our research which bring Chinese studies closer to the world of numbers.
Since the 1st of February 2021 Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard is holder of the Chair for Sinology with a Focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China (Alexander von Humboldt-Professor) and Director of the IKGF (International Consortium for Research in the Humanities “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication”). Her research interests lie at the intersection of the mathematical sciences and sinology, both in history and in present times. Generously supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation her team conducts research on quantification in China (and its global repercussions), the epistemological aspects of algorithmic mathematics and their cultural transformations, as well as numerical techniques of prediction.
The Chair for Sinology with a Focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China is currently hiring a working student. You will join the sin-aps project for the design and implementation of a database containing bibliographical information for Chinese mathematical texts. For more details, see ...
The research group on philosophical translation at Humboldt University under direction of Prof. Dr. Michael Beaney (UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN AND HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN) has organized a "Workshop on Philosophical Translation" on July 8, 2023. Prof. Andrea Bréard will present a paper with the ti...
A new publication by Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard with the title "Reconstructing Giovanni Vacca’s Collection in the Vatican Library" appeared in The Vatican Library Review (VLR).
This article reconstructs an important but specific portion of Giovanni Vacca’s personal library: his books related to math...
For a long time, hermeneutics was confined to the humanities and arts, to legal and religious studies, and to the exegesis primarily of texts. In recent years, however, the hermeneutics of science and technology came into its own, along with questions of „scientific understanding“ or „hermeneutic Te...
