Language of Mathematics

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11JUL 2025
Language of Mathematics
sin-aps goes to Zürich (11–13 July, 2025)
Two sin-aps members, Eva Henke and Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard will participate in a workshop on Discursive and Non-Discursive Reasoning in Chinese Philosophy organized by Polina Lukicheva (University of Zurich), Kai Marchal (National Chengchi University Taipei), Grzegorz Polak (Maria Sklodowska-Curie University Lublin, UMCS), and Rafael Suter (University of Zurich). The workshop explores how processes of thinking […]Two sin-aps members, Eva Henke and Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard will participate in a workshop on Discursive and Non-Discursive Reasoning in Chinese Philosophy organized by Polina Lukicheva (University of Zurich), Kai Marchal (National Chengchi University Taipei), Grzegorz Polak (Maria Sklodowska-Curie University Lublin, UMCS), and Rafael Suter (University of Zurich). The workshop explores how processes of thinking […]
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23MAY 2025
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Master Class: Moving Mathematics through Languages
From June 10 to June 13, 2025, the sin-aps group The language of algorithmic mathematics is organising a four-day Master Class, which aims at analysing the migration of mathematical language from Greek to Chinese via Latin. The Master Class brings together scholars and young researchers who have combined philological with digital approaches to better understand […]
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29APR 2025
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Can ChatGPT solve ancient Chinese math problems? (May 4, 2025)
Since its inception, ChatGPT has been increasingly getting better at solving mathematical problems, with current iterations even surpassing the ability of most humans according to OpenAI. But does this ability also extend to pre-modern Chinese mathematics, which uses a language that differs significantly from what the model was trained on, and might rely on knowledge […]
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12AUG 2024
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Machine Learning for Ancient Languages ACL 2024 Workshop 15 August 2024
Florian Kessler will present a paper entitled “Towards Context-aware Normalization of Variant Characters in Classical Chinese Using Parallel Editions and BERT” at the ML4AL@ACL workshop on August 15, 2024 in Bangkok. For the automatic processing of Classical Chinese texts it is highly desirable to normalize variant characters, i.e. characters with different visual forms that are […]
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04AUG 2024
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China and Universal Languages in the Early 20th Century
At the 25th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) in Tallinn, Estonia (August 27-30th, 2024), a panel on China and Universal Languages in the Early 20th Century is organized by Prof. Andrea Bréard and Prof. Josh Fogel from York University, Toronto. There will be four speakers in the panel: Andrea Bréard […]
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07APR 2024
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Talk by Prof. Bréard at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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 Construction Problems in Chinese translations of Euclid’s Elements In this talk, she will […]
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