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Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity – Essays on the Global Historical Entanglements of the Science of Numbers in China

Title: Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity – Essays on the Global Historical Entanglements of the Science of Numbers in China | Author(s): Bréard, Andrea | Publisher: Springer | Year: 2019 | Language: English | Pages: 291 | ISBN: 978-3-319-93694-9 | Size: 13 MB | Extension: pdf
 
The book addresses for the first time the dynamics associated with the modernization of mathematics in China from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from a transcultural global historical perspective. Rather than depict the transformations of mathematical knowledge in terms of a process of westernization, the book analyzes the complex interactions between different scientific communities and the ways in which the past, modernity, language, and mathematics were negotiated…