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PROFESSIONALHISTORY

City Universityof New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, US
Visiting Research Scholar, PhD Program in History (since 5/2002)

DeutscheForschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany
Research Project Grant (Habilitationsstipendium) : "Reform, bureaucraticexpansion and production of numbers : Statistics in China at the beginningof the 20th century" (2002-2003)

UniversitéParis 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, France
Taught Graduate Course: "Universalisme mathématique ? Sur lescaractéristiques des mathématiques en Chine", Départementde Mathématiques (Spring Term 2000)

CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), France
Associate Researcher, REHSEIS(Recherches en Epistémologie et en Histoire des Sciences et desInstitutions Scientifiques), Paris (since 1999).

Chiang Ching-KuoFoundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Taiwan
Postdoctoral Fellow (9/97-8/99)

Harvard University, YenchingInstitute, US
Visiting Research Scholar (9/96-5/97).

Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Doctoral Fellow, StudyGroup for the History and Philosophy of Chinese Science and Technology(4/95-3/97).

Technical University Munich, Germany
Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics. Taught UndergraduateCourse in Real Analysis (2/92 - 8/92) and Numerical Mathematics to seniormathematics majors (Winter Term  88/89 - Winter Term 90/91).
 

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EDUCATION

Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Ph.D., Dept. of  Philosophy (1997).

University Paris 7 Denis-Diderot, France
Ph.D., Dept. of  Epistemology and History of Exact Sciences andScientific Institutions (1997).

Utrecht, Netherlands
European Honours Course in History of  Mathematics, History ofSeventeenth-Century Mathematics (7/1995).

Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Postgraduate Studies in History of Chinese Science, Dept. of Physics (1992-94).

Technical University of Munich, Germany
M.S., Mathematics and Computer Science (1991).
 

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DISSERTATION

"Re-Creationof a Mathematical Concept in Chinese Discourse: "Series" from the 1st tothe 19th Century" (1997).
Co-chairs: Profs. Eberhard Knobloch (Technical University of Berlin)and Karine Chemla (University Paris 7).
 

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MASTER'STHESIS

"The solution of asymptotic boundary value problems, applied to theone-disc problem from hydromechanics" (1991).
 

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AWARDS

Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences, Paris (France)
Prix des Jeunes Historiens 1999 (Biannual award for outstanding achievementsof young historians of science)

Fondation Sino-Française pour l’Éducation et la Culture,Paris (France)
Prix de thèse 1998 (Award for the best dissertation in Sinologyin France)
 

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FELLOWSHIPS
  • DFG (German Research Society): Habilitationsstipendium (2002-03) "Reform,bürokratische Erweiterung und Produktion von Zahlen: Statistik inChina zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts."
  • Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (1997-99) "SymbolicOperations in Chinese Mathematical Texts"
  • DFG (German Research Society): Funding of the publication of my Ph.D. thesis(1998)“Re-Kreationeines mathematischen Konzeptes im chinesischen Diskurs.”
  • Volkswagen Foundation Dissertation Research Grant (1995-97)
  • French Ministry of Education Research Grant for Co-Chaired Dissertations(1995-97)
  • ERASMUS Inter-University Cooperation Program (ICP) «History of Mathematics»:Participation at the “European Honours Course in History of Mathematics”in Utrecht, Netherlands (7/1995)
  • DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship for postgraduate studiesof modern and classical Chinese and the history of science in China (1992-94)
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    PUBLICATIONS

    A. Books

    Re-Kreationeines mathematischen Konzeptes im chinesischen Diskurs. “Reihen” vom 1.bis zum 19. Jahrhundert Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag (Boethius;42), 1999.
    Reviewed by:
    • Joseph Dauben in: Centaurus 43 (2001): 113-121 (Review essay).
    • Erhard Scholz in: East Asian Science and Technology 18 (2001):122-125.
    • Iwo Amelung in: Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie 18 (2000):535-536.
    • Keizo Hashimoto in: MathematicalReviews, MR 2000e:01011.
    • in: Zentralblatt MATH pre991.15869 (review in preparation).
    • Hermann Kogelschatz in: Historia Mathematica (in preparation).
    Numerical Standard Form for Asymptotic Two-Point Boundary Value Problems.Munich:Technische Universität (TU München; TUM-M9205), 1992.
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    B. Articles


    “Re-création d’un concept mathématique dans le discourschinois”. In : Dutrait Noël (ed.): Actes des Journées deSinologie.Aix-en-Provence: Editions de l’Université de Provence(to appear in 2003).

    “La traduction d’ouvrages occidentaux de mathématiques en Chineà la fin du XIXe siècle : introduction et intégration”.Accepted for: Crozet Pascal, Horiuchi Annick (eds.): Traduire, transposer,naturaliser (to appear in 2003).

    (in collaboration with J. Dauben and Xu Yibao) “The History of ChineseMathematics: The Past 25 Years”. To appear in ILULL 55 (2003).

    “Astronomie (als akademische Disziplin)”. In : Brunhild Staiger, StefanFriedrich, Hans-Wilm Schütte (eds.) : Dasgrosse
    China-Lexikon.Darmstadt : Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. (commercial version publishedby Primus Verlag, Darmstadt), 2003.

    Problemsof pursuit: Recreational mathematics or astronomy ?” in: Yvonne Dold-Samplonius,Joseph W. Dauben, Menso Folkerts, Benno van Dalen (eds.):From Chinato Paris: 2000 Years Transmission of Mathematical Ideas. Stuttgart:Steiner Verlag, 2002 (Boethius): 57-86.

    “La sintesi delle tradizioni matematiche settentrionale e meridionalenell'opera di Zhu Shijie.” In : Chemla, Karine (ed.) : Storiadella Scienza,vol. II, Sezione 1: La scienza in Cina. Rom: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana,2001, 340-344.

    On MathematicalTerminology - Culture Crossing in 19th Century China”. In : MichaelLackner, Iwo Amelung, Joachim Kurtz (eds.): NewTerms for New Ideas: Western Knowledge & Lexical Change in Late ImperialChina. Leiden, Boston , Köln : Brill, 2001(Sinica Leidensia; 52): 305-326.

    3 articles:  “Abakus”; “Chinesische Mathematik”; “Japanische Mathematik”and 10 biographies of Chinese mathematicians (Antiquity - XXth century).In: Lexikonder Mathematik. 6 vols. Heidelberg: Spektrum AkademischerVerlag,2000 - 2003.

    “La recomposition des mathématiques chez ZHU Shijie : la constitutiond’un domaine autour du nombre « quatre »”. In: Oriens -Occidens 3 (2000): 259-277.

    “The Reading of Zhu Shijie”. In : Yung Sik Kim, Francesca Bray (eds.): CurrentPerspectives in the History of Science in East Asia. 53selected papers from the 8th International Conference on the History ofScience in East Asia held in Seoul, on 26-31 August 1996. Seoul: SeoulNational University Press (1999): 291-306 (Part V. MathematicalSciences).

    “Shen Gua’s Cuts”. In: TaiwaneseJournal for Philosophy and History of Science 10 (1998):141-162.

    Reviewed in:
        MathematicalReviews, 2001a:01006.
    An earlier version of this paper appeared in: Hua Jueming et al. (eds.): Zhongguo keji dianji yanjiu. Di yi jie Zhongguokeji dianji guoji huiyilunwenji(Study on Ancient Chinese Books and Records of Science andTechnology. The Colloquia of 1st ISACBRST). Zhengzhou: Daxiang chubanshe,(1998): 149-163.

    In : Hamel, Jürgen (ed.):Astronomiegeschichtein Quellentexten.Von Hesoid bis Hubble.Berlin: SpektrumAkademischer Verlag, 1996.

    “Wang Xiaotong (?) reads the Nine Chapters of Mathematical Procedures”.In : Publications du CIRM (Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques)11 (1995), p.184 (Résumésdes Rencontres).
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    C. Reviews

    Alexeï Volkov (ed.): "A Special Issue on Science in 14th century China:A case study of Daoist Master and Polymath Zhao Youqin (1271-1335?)."TaiwaneseJournal for Philosophy and History of Science 8, 1996-1997. In: HistoriaMathematica (submitted).

    Christopher Cullen: Astronomyand mathematics in ancient China: the Zhou bi suan jing.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996 (Needham Resarch InstituteStudies; 1). In: Centaurus(submitted).

    Kiyosi Yabuuti: Une histoire des mathématiques chinoises.Paris: Belin - Pour la Science, 1999 (Regards sur la Science). In: RevueBibliographique de Sinologie 18 (2000).

    ChineseStudies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.Edited by Fan Dainian and Robert S. Cohen. Translated by Kathleen Duganand Jiang Mingshan. Dordrecht / Boston / London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.1996 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science; 179). In: Revued’Histoire des Sciences 2 (1999): 324-325.

    Folkerts (M.); Rozanskaja (M.M.); Luther (I.): Mathematikgeschichteohne Grenzen. Die Korrespondenz zwischen K. Vogel und A.P. Juschkewitsch.München:Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, 1997 (Algorismus;22). In: Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences 48 (1998):464-465.

    In: European Mathematical Society (ed.) ZentralblattMATH (since 1999):

    In: American Mathematical Society (ed.) MathematicalReviews (since 1998):Annick Horiuchi: Les mathématiques japonaises à l’époqued’Edo (1600-1868): Une étude des travaux de Seki Takakazu (?-1708)et de Takebe Katahiro (1664-1793). Paris: Vrin, 1994. In: HistoriaMathematica 23 (1996): 327-329.

    "Compte rendu de l’exposé de K. Chemla dans les locaux du REHSEIS,le 25 janvier 1996 sur une perspective internationale en histoire des mathématiques".In: Hariria (Recherches historiques sur le patrimoine scientifiquelittéraire et technique du monde méditerranéen etsa diffusion) 2 (1996).
     

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    LECTURESAND PAPERS
     
     

    "The Chinese Maritime Customs and the Board of Agriculture, Industryand Commerce: Modernization of trade statistics in China at the turn ofthe 20th century."

    - "Nomenclatureset classifications: analyses historiques et enjeux économiques",ENS-Cachan (France), June 19-20, 2003;
    "Invention of Foreign Trade Statistics in China at the Turn of the 20thCentury"
    - Lecture Series "Wegedes Wissens", Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 2ndof June, 2003.
    "How to write the history of statistics in China ?"
    "Archivesand Documents for East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine".Workshop organized by Andrea Eberhard-Bréard, REHSEIS , CNRS (France),June 17th, 2003;
    "Mathematicsin China : An Outlook on Historical Narratives and Recent Trends"
    "History and Philosophy of Science Forum". New York Academyof Sciences, 19 February 2003;
    "« Series » in China before and after Zhu Shijie (1303)"
    "History of Mathematics". Seminar by Prof. Bruce Chandler, CUNYGraduate Center, 15 February, 2003;
    "Reform,Bureaucratic Expansion and Production of Numbers: Statistics in China atthe Turn of the 20th Century"
    "History of Mathematics". Special Session at the Joint AnnualMeeting of the American Mathematical Society and the MathematicalAssociation of America. Baltimore, 15-18 January, 2003.
    "Chinese algebra and its philosophical implications"
    Department of Philosophy. Soochow University, Taibei, Taiwan,11 December 2002.
     
    "Translationof the Statistical Language: Following Political and Social Changes"
     
    Panel: Modern History (New terms for new ideas: modern western sciencesin Late Qing China). XIII EACS (European Ass. of Chinese Studies Conference)Torino, August 30th-September 2nd 2000.
    "Visages multiples et insolites des mathématiques"
    "Citéphilo2000: Résister ?". Round Table with Pierre Cartier, Jean-MichelSalanskis and Imre Toth; Lille (France),  14 November 2000.


    "Problemsof Pursuit: Recreational Mathematics or Astronomy?"

    "2000Years Transmission of Mathematical Ideas: Exchange and Influence from LateBabylonian Mathematics to Early Renaissance Science". Bellagio(Italy), May 8-12, 2000;
    "Réforme, expansion bureaucratique et production de nombres :Les statistiques en Chine au début du XXème siècle"
    Seminar of  the research group REHSEIS(Recherches en Epistémologie et en Histoire des Sciences et desInstitutions Scientifiques), CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique),Paris (France), December 14, 1999;
    "L’Actuariat en Chine et à Taiwan: “Les mathématiciensdu Ministère de Finance” "
    "Atelierd’analyse et de prospective : Sinologie et Entreprises", AssociationFrançaise d’Etudes Chinoises, Paris (France), November 19, 1999;
    "La traduction d’ouvrages occidentaux de mathématiques en Chineà la fin du 19e siècle : introduction et intégration"
    "Traduire,transposer, naturaliser: Les mécanismes de la transmission scientifiqueet technique et la formation d’une langue scientifique moderne au XIXesiècle", Centred'histoire des sciences et des philosophies arabes et médiévales(UPRESA 7062)-CNRS-Université de Paris 7 (France), October 5, 1999;
    "Re-Création d’un objet mathématique dans le discourschinois"


    "Schriftzeichenkombinatorik. Zur Konstruktion eines Systems mathematischerObjekte in der Yuan-Zeit"

    Lecture given at the research group ModernChinese Scientific Terminologies, Göttingen (Germany),January 27, 1999;
    "La terminologie au carrefour de deux cultures mathématiques: le travail d’assimilation de l’algèbre par Li Shanlan"
    Research seminar «Transmission des sciences et des techniques dansune perspective interculturelle» of the Centred'histoire des sciences et des philosophies arabes et médiévales(UPRESA 7062)-CNRS-Université de Paris 7 (France), January 6, 1999;
    "On mathematical terminology: Culture Crossing in 19th century China"
    «History of Mathematics: Mathematics in the Americas and the FarEast. 1800-1940», MathematischesForschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (Germany), October 18-24, 1998;
    "Symbolic Operations in 19th century Chinese mathematics"
    8thInternational Conference on the History of Science in China (ICHSC),Berlin (Germany), August 23-28, 1998;
    "La recomposition des mathématiques chez Zhu Shijie - Plaidoyerpour la constitution d’un domaine"
     « Journée sur l’Algèbre en Chine » at theCentred'histoire des sciences et des philosophies arabes et médiévales(UPRESA 7062)-CNRS-Université de Paris 7 (France), February 14,1998;
    "The method for volumes with interstices"
     Text Reading Seminar, held at the NeedhamResearch Institute, Cambridge (England), January 30, 1998;
    "On mathematical terminology in the late 19th century"
    "ResearchingModern Chinese Technical Terminologies: Methodological Considerations andPractical Problems", Göttingen (Germany), October 24-25,1997;
    "Fusion de diverses traditions mathématiques sous les Yuan"
    « Journée sur les sciences et les techniques sous les Song.Quelques éléments », IHEC (Institut des Hautes EtudesChinoises), Paris (France), October 1, 1997;
    "Re-Creation in Mathematics - What is a Problem in the Jigu Suanjing?"
    Symposium "Ten Classics of ancient Chinese mathematics", XXth INTERNATIONALCONGRESS OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Liège (Belgium), July 20-26, 1997;
    "Manerrichte die himmlische Unbekannte - oder: Die Konstruktion chinesischerAlgebra" April 30, 1997;
    "Die Rolle der Bezeichnungen in der Geschichte der arithmetischenReihen Chinas" May 29, 1996;
    "Algorithmische Aspekte der chinesischen Mathematik" June 21,1995;
     Research Colloquia "Probleme der Geschichte und Philosophie der westlichenund chinesischen Wissenschaft und Technik" of the StudyGroup for the History and Philosophy of Chinese Science and Technology,Berlin (Germany);
    "The Reading of Zhu Shijie"
     "8th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia",Seoul (Korea), August 26-31, 1996;
    "Shen Gua’s Cuts"
    "The 1st Insternational Symposium on Ancient Chinese Books and Recordsof Science and Technology" (1st ISACBS) Zibo (China), August 17-20, 1996;
    "Les mathématiques dans Shen Gua"
    Presentation and translation of the mathematical content of the BrushTalks from the Dream Pool (Shen Gua, 11th century) at the researchgroup Histoire des Techniques et des Sciences en Chine en Coréeet au Japon, Collège de France, Paris. March 19 and June 4,1996;
    "Examiner la neige à partir d’un outil en bambou"
    Presentation and translation of meteorological problems in the MathematicalBook in Nine Chapters (Qin Jiushao, 1247), Collège de France,Paris. November 1995;
    "Wang Xiaotong (?) reads the Nine Chapters on Mathematical Procedures"
    "The History of Reading the Ancients in Mathematics". CIRM(Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques), Marseille (France),October 19, 1995;
    "Philosophy and Scientific Thought in the Hellenic Age and in AncientChina" (in Chinese)
    Annual meeting of the "Shanghai Society of History of Science and Technology".Shanghai (China), November 1993.



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