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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.
On July 12, Florian Keßler will present the sin-aps database at the Conference Charting the European D-SEA: Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies organised by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Staatsbibliotkek zu Berlin.
The relational database was developed with HEU...
On May 11, The Third International Workshop on Hermeneutics of Science and Technology was held in Wuhu, Anhui Province at Anhui Normal University 安徽师范大学. This academic symposium was jointly organized by the School of Marxism 马克思主义学院 of Anhui Normal University (Prof. Wu Guolin), the Institute for Ad...
On 19 August 2016, an unknown phone number reached 18-year-old Xu Yuyu in Linyi, Shandong. With information such as her address and high school, the callers claimed to be from local education and finance offices. Following their orders, she transferred her tuition fee to activate a bursary account f...
Understanding by Doing: Theorems and Construction Problems in Chinese translations of Euclid’s Elements
Invited by Prof. Han Qi at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Department of Chinese History and Culture, Prof. Andrea Bréard will give a talk on
Understanding by Doing: Theorems and Cons...
