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Reading Ancient Mathematical Texts (2020-2021)
Lecture de textes mathématiques anciens (2020-2021)
Published on Monday, February 15, 2021
Abstract
This seminar is organized around a presentation of a primary source and the issues it raises, followed by a reading of this edited and translated source. A session can last up to 3 hours, and is conducted by experienced researchers, doctoral students, or even Master’s students. The working language is French or English depending on the case.
Announcement
Presentation
This seminar is organized around a presentation of a primary source and the issues it raises, followed by a reading of this edited and translated source. A session can last up to 3 hours, and is conducted by experienced researchers, doctoral students, or even Master’s students. The working language is French or English depending on the case.
This seminar has a variation in the form of a cuneiform text reading seminar for those interested in cuneiform writing (in this case contact C. Proust christine.proust ( (at) ) wanadoo.fr)
The assessment for students of the Lophiis Master may consist of a written analysis of one of the texts presented at the seminar.
Organisers
Agathe Keller, Karine Chemla, (CNRS, CHSA, SPHere), and the associated group: H. Amini, F. Cornu, Christine Proust (CNRS, CHSA, SPHere), C. Singh, G. Toucas, A. Trouillot, A. Reynaud
Registration and participation
IMPORTANT : Due to the current health situation, the sessions will take place by webconference only. To participate via Zoom_University of Paris, please contact Agathe Keller kellera ( (at) ) univ-paris-diderot.fr for a virtual connection
Programme
Monday October 19
2pm–3:30pm
Hasan AMINI (University of Teheran) : Une méthode délicate pour le calcul de π dans un texte anonyme du XVe siècle en arabe
Monday November 23
2pm–3:30pm
Alexei VOLKOV (National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan) : Analogical reasoning in traditional Chinese mathematics: Calculation of areas and volumes in the ’Mathematical procedures of Nine Categories’ (Jiu zhang suan shu 九章算術)
Monday December 14
2pm–3:30pm
webconference
- Jean-Claude PENIN (Dishas) : Un artisan, astronome et mathématicien du XVe siècle : Jean Fusoris
Monday March 1st
2pm–5pm
- Catherine MORICE-SINGH (SPHere, Université de Paris) : Quelques considérations autour du kuṭṭīkāra de Mahāvīra
- Alexis TROUILLOT (University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere) : Nuzhat al-ʿalbāb", a treatise on calculations by ʾUmar al-Walātī (d. 1836-7)
Monday March 29
2pm–3:30pm
- Guillaume LOIZELET (University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere, & Institut Mathématique de Toulouse) : Traité sur les quantités des distances et des volumes selon les mesures de Ptolémée de Kūshyār ibn Labbān
Monday May 3
2pm–5pm
- Adeline REYNAUD (University of Paris–ED 623, SPHere) : Variations entre les procédures, variations entre les formulations, variations entre les diagrammes dans la collection de problèmes paléo-babylonienne MS 3052
- C. Yifu (Institute of Modern History, Academic Sinica, Taiwan) : Paroles et Actes - accord inexact entre des comptines et les mouvements des boules dans le boulier chinois
Monday June 14
2pm–5pm
- AJ MISRA (Université de Copenhague) : On the first two proofs of Euclid’s Proposition I.47 in Jagannātha’s Rekhāgaṇita and Nasīr al-dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr-i Uqlīdis : a comparative examination
- X. WANG (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) à venir
Subjects
Places
- salle 646A - Université de Paris, bâtiment Condorcet, 4, rue Elsa Morante
Paris, France (75013)
Date(s)
- Monday, October 19, 2020
- Monday, November 23, 2020
- Monday, December 14, 2020
- Monday, March 01, 2021
- Monday, March 29, 2021
- Monday, May 03, 2021
- Monday, June 14, 2021
Attached files
Keywords
- Nuzhat al-ʿalbāb, Umar al-Walātī, Kūshyār ibn Labbān, Jagannātha, Rekhāgaṇita, Nasīr al-dīn al-Ṭūsī’, Taḥrīr-i Uqlīdis, paléo-babylonien, MS 3052, boulier chinois, CNRS, UMR 7219, laboratoire SPHERE, Université Paris 7, Univers
Contact(s)
- Keller Agathe
courriel : kellera [at] univ-paris-diderot [dot] fr
Reference Urls
Information source
- Nad Fachard
courriel : nad [dot] fachard [at] univ-paris-diderot [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Reading Ancient Mathematical Texts (2020-2021) », Seminar, Calenda, Published on Monday, February 15, 2021, https://doi.org/10.58079/162c
