LEADER 04857nam 22006855 450 001 9910337743503321 005 20200703132405.0 010 $a9783319936949 010 $a9783319936956 (e-book) 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-93695-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000008525529 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-93695-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5799406 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008525529 100 $a20190625d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity $eEssays on the Global Historical Entanglements of the Science of Numbers in China /$fby Andrea Bréard 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 281 p. 180 illus., 54 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aTranscultural Research ? Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,$x2191-656X 311 $a3-319-93694-8 311 $a3-319-93695-6 327 $a1 Visions of Antiquity -- 2 The Ellipse Seen from 19th Century China -- 3 Filling Euclid?s Gaps -- 4 Negotiating a Linguistic Space in-between -- 5 Discourse Transformed: Changing Modes of Argumentation -- 6 Fate Calculation : The Mathematics of Divination -- 7 Data Management and Knowledge Production in Late Qing Institutions -- 8 Data Management and Knowledge Production in Late Qing Institutions -- 9 Visions of Modernity. 330 $aThe book addresses for the first time the dynamics associated with the modernization of mathematics in China from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from a transcultural global historical perspective. Rather than depict the transformations of mathematical knowledge in terms of a process of westernization, the book analyzes the complex interactions between different scientific communities and the ways in which the past, modernity, language, and mathematics were negotiated in a global context. In each chapter, Andrea Bréard provides vivid portraits of a series of go-betweens (such as translators, educators, or state statisticians) based on a vast array of translated primary sources hitherto unavailable to a non-Chinese readership. They not only illustrate how Chinese scholars mediated between new mathematical objects and discursive modes, but also how they instrumentalized their autochthonous scientific roots in specific political and intellectual contexts. While sometimes technical in style, the book addresses all readers who are interested in the global and cultural history of science and the complexities involved in the making of universal mathematics. ?While the pursuit of modernity is in the title, entanglement is of as much interest. Using the famous ?Nine Chapters? as a framework, Bréard considers a wide range of that entanglement from divination to data management. Bréard?s analysis and thought-provoking insights show once again how much we can learn when two cultures intersect. A fascinating read!? (John Day, Boston University). 410 0$aTranscultural Research ? Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,$x2191-656X 606 $aMathematics 606 $aHistory 606 $aChina?History 606 $aWorld history 606 $aEpistemology 606 $aSocial sciences 606 $aHistory of Mathematical Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M23009 606 $aHistory of China$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/715010 606 $aWorld History, Global and Transnational History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/719000 606 $aHistory of Science$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/731000 606 $aEpistemology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E13000 606 $aMathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M32000 615 0$aMathematics. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aChina?History. 615 0$aWorld history. 615 0$aEpistemology. 615 0$aSocial sciences. 615 14$aHistory of Mathematical Sciences. 615 24$aHistory of China. 615 24$aWorld History, Global and Transnational History. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aEpistemology. 615 24$aMathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences. 676 $a510.9 700 $aBréard$b Andrea$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01062700 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910337743503321 996 $aNine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity$92527887 997 $aUNINA