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Image of a register book for arms 永元器物簿 from the Eastern Han dynasty, Yongyuan era (89-104 AD)

Quantification from Europe to East Asia

The ubiquity of numbers and statistics as a tool for understanding and ordering the world has a long history, and of course not only in Europe.

Page from Li Shanlan's Comparable Categories of Discrete Accumulations (Duoji bilei 垛積比類), 1867

The language of algorithmic mathematics

If one wants to analyze and compare how mathematical rationality was achieved in different knowledge traditions through the computationally prescriptive characteristics of algorithms, it is important to understand the language of algorithmic texts.