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31OCT 2026
Event
Revue d’Histoire des Mathématiques goes to Erlangen
Published by the French Mathematical Society (SMF), the Revue d’histoire des mathématiques features original articles (in French or English) devoted to the history of the mathematical sciences, from antiquity to the present day. Every year the editorial board invites speakers who have recently completed their PhD dissertation in the mathematical sciences, examined both in terms […]
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15SEP 2026
Event
International Conference on History of Science at Zhejiang University
Prof. Andrea Bréard gave a keynote speech on “Moving Mathematics Through Languages — Hermeneutic and computational approaches to understand translation processes and conceptual change”. By using the example of the first six books of Euclid’s Elements, which were “translated” from Greek to Latin by Christoph Clavius and whose version was then rendered into Chinese in […]
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31JUL 2026
Event
EACS 2026 @Ca’Foscari University
4 Sin-aps members travelled to Venice to join the biannual conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies.
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23JUN 2026
Grants
Andrea Bréard receives prestigious ERC Advanced Grant
C-STICS starts from the observation that crises can reveal fundamental facts about the role of statistics in modern society in general and their functioning in autocracies in particular. Times of crises are social, political, and scientific historical instances; it is precisely then that statistics significantly expand institutionally or reconfigure themselves theoretically under extra-scientific constraints. By […]C-STICS starts from the observation that crises can reveal fundamental facts about the role of statistics in modern society in general and their functioning in autocracies in particular. Times of crises are social, political, and scientific historical instances; it is precisely then that statistics significantly expand institutionally or reconfigure themselves theoretically under extra-scientific constraints. By […]
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22MAY 2026
News
Fresh from the press…
Together with Fabio Acerbi (CNRS, Paris), Florian Keßler, and Ramon Masià (Barcelona), Andrea Bréard has published an innovative approach to Christoph Clavius’ Latin translation of Euclid’s Elements. It is studied by applying standard and less standard tools of computational linguistics. Clavius’ lexical choices are compared with the relevant Greek and Latin editions and translations. We […]Together with Fabio Acerbi (CNRS, Paris), Florian Keßler, and Ramon Masià (Barcelona), Andrea Bréard has published an innovative approach to Christoph Clavius’ Latin translation of Euclid’s Elements. It is studied by applying standard and less standard tools of computational linguistics. Clavius’ lexical choices are compared with the relevant Greek and Latin editions and translations. We […]
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30APR 2026
Event
80 ans de l’INSEE et 50 ans des Journées d’étude sur l’histoire de la statistique
Prof. Andrea Bréard gave a talk on “1949: China and the Making of New Statistics”. Nearly 80 years ago, with the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the reference for statistical theories and practices was shifted from the Anglo-Saxon world to Russia. The “New statistics” was declared to be decidedly practical, and […]
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