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Author: Catherine Jami (Director of Research, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 19.70cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 25.30cm
Weight: 1.168kg
ISBN: 9780199601400
ISBN 10: 0199601402
Pages: 454
Publication Date: 01 December 2011
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Jami's work ... is a fascinating study of how, in late seventeenth century China, a decision by the Emperor helped to return mathematics to an important place in Chinese society. Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics
The Emperor's New Mathematics provides an incredible contribution to the studies of Qing history and history of sciences in late imperial China. * Mathematical Association of America * Jami's work ... is a fascinating study of how, in late seventeenth century China, a decision by the Emperor helped to return mathematics to an important place in Chinese society. * Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics * Jami has produced a work of scholarly haute couture that is probably an almost definitive account of this first phase of the circulation of Western learning in China ... Jami has done an exemplary job in making the book optimally accessible to a wide readership, and the amount of mathematical background needed to appreciate the arguments is kept to a minimum. * Peter Engelfriet, Journal of Asian Studies *
Jami has produced a work of scholarly haute couture that is probably an almost definitive account of this first phase of the circulation of Western learning in China ... Jami has done an exemplary job in making the book optimally accessible to a wide readership, and the amount of mathematical background needed to appreciate the arguments is kept to a minimum. Peter Engelfriet, Journal of Asian Studies Jami's work ... is a fascinating study of how, in late seventeenth century China, a decision by the Emperor helped to return mathematics to an important place in Chinese society. Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Author Information
Catherine Jami is a Director of Research at the French CNRS (SPHERE, Université de Paris-Diderot). She originally trained as a mathematician, and then in Chinese studies. In the past she has served as presidents for both the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine and the Association Française d'Etudes Chinoises. She was also treasurer for the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (ICSU). Starting with her book 'Les Méthodes Rapides pour la Trigonométrie et le Rapport Précis du Cercle (1774): tradition chinoise et apport occidental en mathématiques' (1990), she has published extensively on mathematics in seventeenth and eighteenth century China, as well as on the Jesuit missionaries and the reception of the sciences they introduced to late Ming and early Qing China.
