Month: May 2022

Die „Kunst der diskreten Akkumulationen“ oder: Kombinatorik in China - Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard - In mathematischen Texten der Vormoderne Chinas wurden logische Schlussfolgerungen nur selten explizit formuliert, geschweige denn formalisiert. Dennoch wäre es falsch, den Jesuitenkomme...

Chinesische Statistik zwischen Globalisierung und sozialistischen Charakteristiken - Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) - Im Gegensatz zu den abstrakten Zahlen der reinen Mathematik sind statistische Zahlen immer sozial und politisch konstruiert. In diesem Vortrag soll...

Dr. Nicolas Schillinger published a new article on Microbic Mass Destruction - Biological Warfare and Epidemic Prevention in Republican China in the journal East Asian Science, Technology and Society (2022). Against the background of the first half of the twentieth century, when the possibility of w...

Within the framework of the research seminar Histoire et philosophie des mathématiques of the research group SPHERE (CNRS, Paris), Karine Chemla, Nicolas Michel and Arilès Remaki have organized a hybrid workshop on "Diagrams and Calculations" on May 23rd, 2022. Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard will present a...

The application of various technologies for plowing, harrowing, sowing and harvesting were propagated as better tools than manual labor particularly in the early years of the PRC. In a very obvious way the superiority of tractors in agricultural production is acknowledged in the image here...

During the summer term 2022 the IKGF organizes a lecture series on the Consortium's theme Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe. It takes place on Tuesdays, 6:15 pm–7:45 pm CEST (US East Coast: 12:15 pm–1:45 pm EDT; China: 0:15 am–1:45 am...

The Long Night of Sciences is one of the largest scientific communication events in the Nuremberg metropolitan region and the largest Long Night of its kind in Germany. More than 20,000 people will visit the various scientific institutions in the region, starting with the children’s programme in the afternoon and continuing with the programme aimed at adults from 6pm, with tours through the laboratories and institutes giving the general public the opportunity to discover what researchers at FAU, Max Planck & co are currently working on.

Bundesforschungsministerin Bettina Stark-Watzinger und der Präsident der Humboldt-Stiftung Hans-Christian Pape verleihen am 12. Mai 2022 Deutschlands höchstdotierten Forschungspreis, die Alexander von Humboldt-Professuren. 21 Spitzenforschende werden in Berlin mit Deutschlands höchstdotiertem intern...