Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity Essays on the Global Historical Entanglements of the Science of Numbers in China /

• Main Author: Bréard, Andrea (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Transcultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; China-History.; World history.; Epistemology.; Social sciences.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; History of China.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; History of Science.; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The 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...