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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).
 

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).
 

"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).
 

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

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)
 

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)

A. Books

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).

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.

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

• pp. 18-27: "Astronomie im Alten China - ein Korrektiv des Fremden";
• pp.116-117: "Aus den Neuen Annalen der altchinesischen Tang-Dynastie (618-896)";
• pp. 118-119: "Eine Kalenderrechnung in den »Neun Kapiteln ausmathematischenBüchern«, 1247".

C. Reviews

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):

• (0976.01004) Feng, Lisheng; Li, Di : "«Liuzhang», «Sankai»xintan" (On the two mathematical works “liuzhang” and “Sankai”). Xibeidaxue xuebao (Ziran kexue ban) (Journal of Northwest University(Nat.Sci.)) 30-1 (2000) : 89-92.
• (0976.01003) Chemla, Karine : “Positions et changements en mathématiquesà partir des textes chinois des dynasties Han à Song-Yuan.Quelques remarques.” Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident18 (1996) : 115-147.
• (0976.01001) Joseph, George Gheverghese : The Crest of the Peacock.The non-European roots of mathematics. Princeton, NJ : Princeton UniversityPress, 2000.
• (0972.01009) Sasaki, Chikara : “The French and Japanese schools of algebrain the seventeeth century: A comparative study”. Historia Scientiarum 9-1 (1999) : 17-26.
• (0972.01005) Martzloff, Jean-Claude : Chinese Mathematical Astronomy. In: Selin, Helaine (éd.) et al. : Mathematics across cultures.The history of non-western mathematics. Dordrecht : Kluwer AcademicPublishers (Science across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science;2) : 373-407 (2000).
• (0972.01004) Qu, Anjing : "Zhongguo gudai de zhirunfa : yige gailüwenti" (Methods for determining the intercalary month in Chinese calendar-makingsystem: a problem of probability). Xibei daxue xuebao (Zirankexue ban) (Journal of Northwest University (Nat.Sci.)) 30-6 (2000): 466-469.
• (0972.01003) Wang, Xiaoqin : "Guanyu Ajimide hegaitiji gongshi de zhuji"(Notes on Archimedes’ proofs of the volume of joined umbrella). Qufushifan daxue xuebao (J. Qufu Normal University) 26-4 (2000) : 25-28.
• (0969.01005) Wang Hui; Te Gusi : "Guanyu geyuan lianbilie jie de xiangshidingli tanxi" (A discussion on the Xiang theory about the cyclotomic continuedproportional method). Pure and Applied Mathematics 16-2 (2000) :85-88.
• (0966.01006) Kim Soo Hwan : Development of materials for ethnomathematicsin Korea. In : Selin, Helaine et al. (eds.): Mathematics AcrossCultures.The History of non-Western Mathematics. Dordrecht : Kluwer AcademicPublishers (Science across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science;2) : 455-465 (2000).
• (0961.01005) Fu, Hailun; Liu, Qiuxiang : "Youxianghua fangfa yu siyuanshijiefa chengxu de jiweihua" (The positional method and the mechanizationof siyuan soluble procedure). Qufu shifan daxue xuebao (J. QufuNormal University) 25-4 (1999) : 47-51.
• (0953.01005) Bao, Fangxun : Aer Tusi sanci daishu fangcheng zhenggende taolun ("On Al-Tusi’s discussion on positive roots of cubic equations").Qufushifan daxue xuebao (J. Qufu Normal University) 25-4 (1999) : 52-55.
• (0945.01008) de Thomaz de Bossierre, Yves : Jean-François Gerbillon,S.J. (1654-1707). Un des cinq mathématiciens envoyés en Chinepar Louis XIV. Leuven : Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation, 1994 (LouvinChinese Studies; 2).
• (0946.01002) Mamoru Mimura : “The Japanese School of Topology”. In I.M.James (ed.) : History of Topology. Elsevier Science, 1999 : 863-882.
• (0941.01036) Wang, Zhonghua : "Jisuan gongju fazhan jianshi" ("A sketchof the history of the development of computational tools"). Huazhongshifan daxue xuebao (Ziran kexue ban) (Journal of Central ChinaNormal University (Nat.Sci.)) 29-2 (1995) : 248-254.
•  (0939.01036) Deng, Zongqi : "Shuxue chuanbo shilüe"  ("Abrief history of the mathematical communication"). Huazhong shifan daxuexuebao (Ziran kexue ban) (Journal of Central China Normal University(Nat.Sci.)) 26-4 (1992) : 511-518.

• (1 948 631) Kobayashi, Tatsuhiko. "What Kind of Mathematics and Terminologywas Transmitted into 18-th Century Japan from China ?" Historia Scientiarum12-1(2002): 1-17.
• (1 943 948) Petoukhov, Sergei V. "Genetic Code and the Ancient ChineseBookof Changes." Symmetry: Culture and Science 10-3/4 (1999): 211-226.
• (2001i:01033) Sasaki, Chikara. "The French and Japanese schools of algebrain the seventeenth century: a comparative study." Pierre de Fermat mathématicienfrançais (Tokyo, 1998). Historia Scientiarum(2) 9-1 (1999):17-26.
• (2001g:01007) Chemla, Karine : “Fractions and irrationals between algorithmand proof in ancient China”. Studies in History of Medicine & Science,Vol. XV, No. 1-2, New Series (1997/98) : 31-54.
• (2000m:01041) Mme Yves de Thomaz de Bossierre: Jean-FrançoisGerbillon, S.J. (1654-1707). Mathématicien de Louis XIV.Leuven: Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation, 1994 (Louvain Chinese Studies; II).
• (2000m:01011) Chemla, Karine : “Qu’est-ce qu’un problème dans latradition mathématique de la Chine ancienne ?” Extrême-OrientExtrême-Occident 19 (1997) : 91-126.
• (2000m:01010) Chemla, Karine : “Positions et changements en mathématiquesà partir de textes chinois des dynasties Han à Song-Yuan.”Extrême-OrientExtrême-Occident 18 (1996) : 115-147.
• (99m:01008) S. Tanaka, A. Kubo and N. Sato: "The Fan Problem and its Historyin the Japanese Mathematics". Gurukula Vijnana Patrika Aryabhata1-1 (1998): 15-24.
• (99k:01006) Sato, Ken’ichi : “On the Theory of Regular Polygons in TraditionalJapanese Mathematics: Reconstruction of the Process for the Calculationof the Degree of Kaihoshiki Appearing in the Taisei Sankei by SEKI andTAKEBE Brothers”. Historia Scientiarum 8-1 (1998) : 71-85.
• (99c:01007) Rigby, John F.: "Traditional Japanese Geometry". MathematicalMedley 24-2 (1997): 40-45.
• (99c:01006) Murata, Tamotsu: "Ein Vergleich zwischen japanischer und europäischerMathematik im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert". Acta historica Leopoldina27 (1997): 215-222.
• (98g:01016) Ogawa, Tsukane: "A Process of Establishment of Pre-modern JapaneseMathematics". Historia Scientiarum 5-3 (1996): 255-261.

"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).
 

"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;

- Lecture Series "Wegedes Wissens", Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 2ndof June, 2003.

"Archivesand Documents for East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine".Workshop organized by Andrea Eberhard-Bréard, REHSEIS , CNRS (France),June 17th, 2003;

"History and Philosophy of Science Forum". New York Academyof Sciences, 19 February 2003;

"History of Mathematics". Seminar by Prof. Bruce Chandler, CUNYGraduate Center, 15 February, 2003;

"History of Mathematics". Special Session at the Joint AnnualMeeting of the American Mathematical Society and the MathematicalAssociation of America. Baltimore, 15-18 January, 2003.

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.

"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;

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;

"Atelierd’analyse et de prospective : Sinologie et Entreprises", AssociationFrançaise d’Etudes Chinoises, Paris (France), November 19, 1999;

"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;

•  General assembly of the AFEC (Association française d’étudeschinoises), Paris (France), June 12, 1999;
•  «Journées de l’AFEC», Aix-en-Provence (France),March 27-28, 1998;

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

Lecture given at the research group ModernChinese Scientific Terminologies, Göttingen (Germany),January 27, 1999;

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;

«History of Mathematics: Mathematics in the Americas and the FarEast. 1800-1940», MathematischesForschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (Germany), October 18-24, 1998;

8thInternational Conference on the History of Science in China (ICHSC),Berlin (Germany), August 23-28, 1998;

 « 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;

 Text Reading Seminar, held at the NeedhamResearch Institute, Cambridge (England), January 30, 1998;

"ResearchingModern Chinese Technical Terminologies: Methodological Considerations andPractical Problems", Göttingen (Germany), October 24-25,1997;

« Journée sur les sciences et les techniques sous les Song.Quelques éléments », IHEC (Institut des Hautes EtudesChinoises), Paris (France), October 1, 1997;

Symposium "Ten Classics of ancient Chinese mathematics", XXth INTERNATIONALCONGRESS OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Liège (Belgium), July 20-26, 1997;

 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);

 "8th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia",Seoul (Korea), August 26-31, 1996;

"The 1st Insternational Symposium on Ancient Chinese Books and Recordsof Science and Technology" (1st ISACBS) Zibo (China), August 17-20, 1996;

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;

Presentation and translation of meteorological problems in the MathematicalBook in Nine Chapters (Qin Jiushao, 1247), Collège de France,Paris. November 1995;

"The History of Reading the Ancients in Mathematics". CIRM(Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques), Marseille (France),October 19, 1995;

Annual meeting of the "Shanghai Society of History of Science and Technology".Shanghai (China), November 1993.