What do we mean when we raise the issue of the relationship between mathematics and culture? This chapter suggests an answer to this question that relies on the evidence provided by some of the earliest extant Chinese mathematical sources. My claim is that these documents bear witness to a way of doing mathematics that lasted for some centuries and that is specific —that is, specific at least to a given scholarly tradition that developed in ancient China.

Matematica e cultura nella Cina antica / GAVAGNA V.. - STAMPA. - 1:(2007), pp. 91-135.

Matematica e cultura nella Cina antica

GAVAGNA, VERONICA
2007

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What do we mean when we raise the issue of the relationship between mathematics and culture? This chapter suggests an answer to this question that relies on the evidence provided by some of the earliest extant Chinese mathematical sources. My claim is that these documents bear witness to a way of doing mathematics that lasted for some centuries and that is specific —that is, specific at least to a given scholarly tradition that developed in ancient China.
2007
Einaudi
TORINO
Claudio Bartocci, Piergiorgio Odifreddi
La matematica. I luoghi e i tempi
GAVAGNA V.
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