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                  On December 4th, The Economist reported the following in an article entitled Omicronomics : If the Omicron variant is more infectious than other strains, it will increase the likelihood of covid-19 outbreaks i...

The Chair for Sinology with a focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China — Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations — at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg invites applications for the position of a PhD student (f/m/d) with an interest in digital humanities and the la...

Together with Constance A. Cook, Andrea Bréard published  a chapter entitled "Stalk and Other Divination Traditions Prior to the Changes Canon: Views from Newly-Discovered Texts". It focuses on the earliest graphic inscriptions of groups of numbers found on a variety of media over the course of a mi...

A new publication by A. Bréard with the title "Hexagrams and Mathematics: Symbolic Approaches to Prediction from the Song to the Qing" appeared in Tze-ki Hon's edited volume The Other Yijing. The Book of Changes in Chinese History, Politics, and Everyday Life (Brill 2021). It analyzes the motivation...

In the early twentieth century, Chinese armies were badly lacking in medical care. The National Revolutionary Army of the Nanjing Government under Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) sought to increase the number of biomedically trained doctors and improve the application of scientific military medicine,...

In China hat sich die Mathematik (shuxue 數學, wörtlich: die Lehre von den Zahlen) bis ins 19. Jahrhundert fast unabhängig von anderen Traditionen entwickelt. Dabei wird ihr oft vorgeworfen, intuitiv und ohne Beweiskonzept vorgegangen zu sein. In diesem Vortrag soll anhand einiger einfacher Beispiele ...

On Friday, 12 November 2021, Dr. Nicolas Schillinger will present a paper on "The Muscular Chinese – Masculinity, Male Bodies and Fascist Fantasies in Republican China (1930s-40s)" at the online workshop Gendering Fascism. Organisations, Bodies, Representations organised by Andrea Germer and Jasmin ...

Les 8 et 9 novembre 2021 aura lieu à Paris à l'Institut Henri Poincaré (amphi Darboux) le colloque 2021 de la Revue d’histoire des mathématiques en partenariat avec le Séminaire d’histoire des mathématiques de l’IHP. Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard y présentera une intervention sur "Le coefficient de simili...

Im Rahmen des IKGF Humanities Festival der FAU, spricht Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard am 24. Oktober 2021 über offizielle chinesische Statistiken. Zweifel an deren Verlässlichkeit sind angebracht, selbst wenn der Großteil der westlichen Medien diese unkritisch verwendet. Der Vortrag hinterfragt die Produk...

At the First Meeting of the Regional Group 'FRANKEN' of the Deutsche Gesellschaft der Humboldtianer (DGHV), Prof. Andrea Bréard will present a talk on The Challenges of Interdisciplinarity, or how to combine mathematics with sinology? When: Thursday, 28.10.2021 at 6 pm (until about 8 pm) Where: Au...