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Exploring 19th and 20th centuries historiographies of mathematics in the ancient world (2015-2016)

Exploring 19th and 20th centuries historiographies of mathematics in the ancient world (2015-2016)

Seminar of the European Research Council Project "Mathematical sciences in the ancient world"
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Publié le vendredi 05 février 2016 par Céline Guilleux
RÉSUMÉ
The organization of this seminar marks the beginning of the third and last phase of the SAW project. Our aim is to explore various facets of 19th and 20th century historical research about ancient mathematical sciences, especially those attested to by sources written in Chinese, the languages of the Indian subcontinent and cuneiform script.
ANNONCE

Argument

The organization of this seminar marks the beginning of the third and last phase of the SAW project. Our aim is to explore various facets of 19th and 20th century historical research about ancient mathematical sciences, especially those attested to by sources written in Chinese, the languages of the Indian subcontinent and cuneiform script.
After a brief examination of 17th and 18th century writings on mathematical sciences of the ancient world, we will analyze how worldwide in the first half of the 19th century roughly speaking, different milieus (orientalists, Confucian scholars, Indian pandits, mathematicians, philologists, etc) began systematically exploring mathematical sources of the past. We will analyze the issues and sources they privileged, their methods of inquiry and interpretation, the values they prized, the networks and the institutions to which they belonged and the contexts in which they carried out their historical work. After having focused on historical writing before the professionalisation of the history of mathematics, we will turn to the time period of professionalisation. Against this background, we will then concentrate on two specific topics important for the SAW project: the historiography of computation and the historiographic treatment of measurement units in the history of ancient mathematics. Finally, we will examine more global issues: how the different historiographies of ancient mathematics approached questions of comparison and circulation, and how they dealt with issues related to culture, civilization, and similar topics. The past and present-day uses of history of mathematics in specific communities will be equally at the center of our interest in this final part of the seminar.
The seminar is intended as a meeting of historians of mathematics with historians of philology, of orientalism, assyriologists, indologists, sinologists, and other specialists.

Programme

November 13, 2015

  • Christopher Minkowski, The sense of history in Indian astronomical texts
  • David Rabouin, Wallis as an historian of Algebra
  • Antoni Malet, Milliet Dechales’s history of mathematics
  • Florence Hsia, Reconstructing science in sinographic archives

December 18, 2015

  • Martina Schneider/Pierre Chaigneau, Chaldean/Babylonian mathematics according to Hankel and Cantor
  • Teije de Jong, The rediscovery of Babylonian Astronomy: a historiographic narrative
  • John Steele, Abraham Sachs and the History of Babylonian science
  • Victor Gysembergh, “Greek” science, “Babylonian” science? A vexata quaestio in the historiography of science

January 8, 2016

  • Ivahn Smadja, Crossing Borders: Henry Thomas Colebrooke and his European readers
  • Kevin Lambert, Counting on Power: George Peacock, the History of Arithmetic and the Late Georgian British Colonial State
  • Agathe Keller & Catherine Singh, Editions and translations of Sanskrit Mathematical and Astral texts in India at the beginning of the twentieth century

January 22, 2016

  • Daniel Morgan, A Sphere unto Itself: the Death and Medieval Framing of the History of Chinese Cosmology
  • CHEN Zhihui, Wylie’s translation of the terminologies for the traditional Chinese mathematics
  • Martina Schneider & Karine Chemla, The reception of Alexander Wylie’s Jottings on the science of the Chinese. Arithmetic in Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries
  • MIZUNO Hiromi, When Cultural History Meets Mathematics: wasan and Yoshio Mikami

February 19, 2016

  • Jiří Hudeček, Evidential Scholarship and New Humanism: Li Yan and Qian Baocong as Historians of Chinese Mathematics
  • Dhruv Raina, The `Analytics’ and the Indologists: How the history of mathematics shaped mathematics education in Nineteenth Century India?
  • Ksenia Tatarchenko, Old Truths for Tomorrow: Sketching Professional, Popular and Amateur Histories of Ancient Mathematics in the Soviet Union
  • Alma Steingart, Cold War Antiquities: Histories of Mathematics in the Postwar United States

March 18, 2016

  • Baptiste Mélès, Conceptions of Computation in Historiography of Mesopotamian Mathematics
  • Lisa Indracollo, Number, Units, and Conceptual Categories. Conceptions and misconceptions about numbers in China and the West
  • Serafina Cuomo, The other Greeks – notation, calculation, and cultural classification?
  • HIROSE Sho, Observation versus Computation in Indian Astronomy

April 15, 2016

Room 483 A, Condorcet – 9.30-5.30 pm, Historiography of measurement units
  • Marie-José Durand-Richard, The English Algebraists: from the practice of arithmetics to its theory
  • Pierre Chaigneau, In the jungle of Mesopotamian metrologies: on Thureau-Dangin’s first approach to cuneiform numbers and quantities
  • Nadine de Courtenay, tba
  • WANG Xiaofei, La réforme des poids et mesures et le calcul d’arithmétique lors de la Révolution Française

May 20, 2016

  • Justin Smith, The ‘Hard Problem’ of Comparative Intellectual History: The Case of Europe and India
  • Pascale Rabault, Oriental languages and the development of comparative linguistics in the 19th century
  • Francesca Rochberg, The Ancient Astral Sciences of Babylonia and the Greco-Latin World: Highways and Byways of Comparison
  • Karine Chemla, CHEN Zhihui, Daniel Morgan & ZHOU Xiaohan Célestin, 19th century uses of comparison in the historiography of mathematics and astral sciences in China

June 17, 2016

  • Agathe Keller, Vedic Mathematics and its historiography of «hindu» mathematics
  • Habib Irfan, tba
  • LEI Hsiang-lin, How Did Chinese Medicine Become Chinese? Re-thinking the conception of culture in understanding Chinese medicine
LIEUX
  • Salle 483 A - Université Paris Diderot, Bâtiment Condorcet, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet
    Paris, France (75013)
DATES
  • vendredi 13 novembre 2015
  • vendredi 18 décembre 2015
  • vendredi 08 janvier 2016
  • vendredi 22 janvier 2016
  • vendredi 19 février 2016
  • vendredi 18 mars 2016
  • vendredi 15 avril 2016
  • vendredi 20 mai 2016
  • vendredi 17 juin 2016
MOTS-CLÉS
  • mathematics, cosmology, astral sciences, Mesopotamia
CONTACTS
  • Karine Chemla
    courriel : chemla [at] univ-paris-diderot [dot] fr
SOURCE DE L'INFORMATION
  • Nad Fachard
    courriel : nad [dot] fachard [at] univ-paris-diderot [dot] fr
POUR CITER CETTE ANNONCE
« Exploring 19th and 20th centuries historiographies of mathematics in the ancient world (2015-2016) », Séminaire, Calenda, Publié le vendredi 05 février 2016,http://calenda.org/355990
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