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Andrea Bréard: Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity

Bréard, Andrea (2019): Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity. Essays on the Global Historical Entanglements of the Science of Numbers in China. Cham: Springer.

ISBN: 9783319936949
ISSN: 2191-6578

Cover of Andrea Bréard's book "Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity"

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 in a global context.

In each chapter, Andrea Bréard provides vivid portraits of a series of go-betweens (such as translators, educators, or state statisticians) based on a vast array of translated primary sources hitherto unavailable to a non-Chinese readership. They not only illustrate how Chinese scholars mediated between new mathematical objects and discursive modes, but also how they instrumentalized their autochthonous scientific roots in specific political and intellectual contexts. While sometimes technical in style, the book addresses all readers who are interested in the global and cultural history of science and the complexities involved in the making of universal mathematics.


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Editor (22. September 2021). Andrea Bréard: Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity. Chinawissen vernetzt / Sinologia in rete / Savoirs sur la Chine en réseau. Abgerufen am 15. Juni 2025 von https://sinonet.hypotheses.org/114


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