Algorithms

From December 5 to December 8, 2022, the sin-aps group The language of algorithmic mathematics is organising a four-day workshop, which aims at analysing the logic and syntax of mathematical texts: Greek, Latin, Chinese and modern mathematical formulaic texts. The workshop brings together scholars a...

Together with Constance A. Cook, Andrea Bréard published  a chapter entitled "Stalk and Other Divination Traditions Prior to the Changes Canon: Views from Newly-Discovered Texts". It focuses on the earliest graphic inscriptions of groups of numbers found on a variety of media over the course of a mi...

A new publication by A. Bréard with the title "Hexagrams and Mathematics: Symbolic Approaches to Prediction from the Song to the Qing" appeared in Tze-ki Hon's edited volume The Other Yijing. The Book of Changes in Chinese History, Politics, and Everyday Life (Brill 2021). It analyzes the motivation...

In China hat sich die Mathematik (shuxue 數學, wörtlich: die Lehre von den Zahlen) bis ins 19. Jahrhundert fast unabhängig von anderen Traditionen entwickelt. Dabei wird ihr oft vorgeworfen, intuitiv und ohne Beweiskonzept vorgegangen zu sein. In diesem Vortrag soll anhand einiger einfacher Beispiele ...