Algorithms

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02MAR 2026
Algorithms
sin-aps goes to DHd (23-27 February, 2026)
What makes mathematical texts different from other genres? One important factor appears to be formulaicity, one possible definition for which is the frequent and verbatim repetition of certain stock phrases, such as “without loss of generality”, “thus we can see easily”, and so on. Does pre-modern Chinese mathematics — like modern mathematics — contain such often repeated […]
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20NOV 2025
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Online Workshop (2-3 December, 2025): Conceptual Engineering in the World History of Mathematics
In this workshop, hosted by sin-aps and generously supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, we will approach the global pre-modern history of mathematical concepts in a new light. Dr. Vincenzo de Risi (CNRS, Paris) will give the keynote talk on The Ground of Axioms: New Ideals of Scientific Proofs in the Middle Ages. As […]
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01DEC 2022
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Workshop: Approaches to the Logic and Syntax of Mathematical Texts
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 and young researchers who have combined (philo-)logical with digital approaches to […]
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20DEC 2021
Algorithms
New joint publication by Constance A. Cook and A. Bréard
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 millennium and demonstrates that, contrary to the later […]
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10DEC 2021
Algorithms
New Publication: Hexagrams and Mathematics
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 motivations and solutions of several Song to Qing dynasty […]
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19NOV 2021
Algorithms
Conference (in German): Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen in China? Mathematik aus fernöstlicher Perspektive
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 gezeigt werden, dass, auch wenn es keine Theorie der Zahlen in […]
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