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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...

Im Jahr 2022 wendet sich die Vortragsreihe Wissenschaft unter Druck der ersten Medienrevolution zu. Die Wiedererfindung des Buchdrucks mit beweglichen Lettern von Johannes Gutenberg in der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts ist ohne Zweifel eine der größten und einflussreichsten technischen Errungenschaften...

The sudden decision by China’s National Bureau of Statistics to delay indefinitely the release of G.D.P. and other economic statistics while the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China takes place in Beijing has created much consternation among financial analysts and economic observer...

The project “Networks of knowledge about China: on the analysis and creation of complex disciplinary spaces” concerns the history of science and disciplines: it deals with actors in the circulation of knowledge with China since the middle of the 19th century. They are analyzed in terms of their comp...

Plotting the population data of Hubei Province as given on the website of China's National Bureau of Statistics 国家统计局 reveals a striking pattern: a sensational exodus out of the Province between the end of 2019 and 2020. With 3,07% less, or, in absolute terms,  a drop from 59.27 to 57.45 million, th...

We are pleased to announce our upcoming conference on "Biographies of Numbers" organized by the sin-aps research group. It takes place from July 7-9, 2022, you can join us in person or via Zoom. For a detailed program please click here. The conference explores the life of numerically framed knowl...