New Publication: Incognito: The secret lives of Liu Hui in 19th-century China
Fresh from the press ! An article based on Prof. Andrea Bréard‘s keynote at the UNESCO anniversary event in September 2024, supported academically by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to commemorate Liu Hui 劉徽, a 3rd century Chinese mathematician. I tried to answer the question how one can quantify long-term scientific impact beyond considering the h-index …
It was published in a special thematic issue on Academic thought of Liu Hui and its modern value edited by Prof. Zou Dahai from the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences 自然科學史研究所, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Bréard, A. (2026). Incognito: The secret lives of Liu Hui in 19th-century China. Cultures of Science (online first). https://doi.org/10.1177/20966083251411941