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The Chair for Sinology with a focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China — Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations — at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) invites applications for a position of a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) with an interest in the g...

A new publication (in French) by Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard with the title “Histoire globale de la quantification – et la Chine ?” appeared on the blog Histoires et Mesures of the journal Histoire & Mesure (EHESS). It is the second in a series of Digital Re-editions, which, drawing on the digita...

Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard and Dr. Catherine Goldstein (CNRS,IMJ-PRG, UMR 7586) will give a workshop on “Comparing traces: combinations in nineteenth-century China and France” in a module on “Inscribing and disciplining combinations” at the RESEARCH SCHOOL - Expressions of Mathematical Activity: Traces...

Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard interviendra dans la deuxième journée d'étude organisée par la revue Histoire & Mesure sur « Liang Qichao (1873-1929), l’introduction de la notion de “statistiques historiques” 歷史統計學 et l’abondance des sources en Chine ». Quantification, sources et administration de la...

A new publication by Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard with the title "Wu Dingliang (1894–1969) and the Statistical Definition of the Chinese Race" appeared in the journal Histoire & Mesure XXXVII-1 (EHESS, 2022). By focusing upon the scientific work and network of Wu Dingliang 吳定良, this article looks at ...

Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences en Histoire et Philosophie des Mathématiques, organisé par Prof. Marco Cannone à l'Université Gutave Eiffel, Prof. Andrea Bréard interviendra le 25 janvier 2023 sur la question  "Qu’est-ce que c’est un « nombre » en Chine ancienne ?". Quel sens donner à des insc...

The Chair for Sinology with a Focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China is currently hiring three post-docs pursuing research in relation to the themes of the sin-aps project. Both research fields, Quantification from Europe to East Asia and The Language of Algorithmic Mathematics are ...

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...

On 25 November 2022, Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard will speak in the research seminar Towards a comprehensive collaborative research environment for the study of premodern Chinese culture organized by Prof. Dr. Christian Wittern at Kyoto University (Japan) on The “natural” language of mathematics and its ...

On April 2, 2022, the press conference for the “4th Report on the Development of Autism Education and Rehabilitation in China” saw the release of new statistical data on autism in the country. Experts present on the occasion confirmed that autism prevalence in the country is on the rise, and is esti...