Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard

Chair for Sinology with a focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China (Alexander von Humboldt-Professor)

Inductive Arguments in the Midst of Smoke: “Proving” Rhetorically and Visually That Algorithms Work (2020) Bréard A Book chapter / Article in edited volumes Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity. Essays on the Global Historical Entanglements of the Science of Numbers in China (2019) Bréard A Authored book, Monography Statistics (2019) Bréard A Book chapter / Article in edited volumes 400 Millionen - Globale Wirkungen einer mächtigen Zahl (2019) Bréard A Book chapter / Article in edited volumes (Philo-)Logica-Mathematica – Giovanni Vacca's (1872-1953) attempts of translation between mathematical formulas and Chinese text via simplified Latin (2019) Bréard A Journal article, Original article Numbers as Signs. Recreative reflections on conceptual entanglements between mathematics, divination and language in the modern era (2018) Bréard A Book chapter / Article in edited volumes How to quantify the value of domino combinations? Divination and shifting rationalities in late imperial China (2018) Bréard A Book chapter / Article in edited volumes Euclide en Chine ou: comment faire communiquer différentes cultures mathématiques ? (2017) Bréard A Journal article, Original article Das Verhältnis von indischer, arabischer und westlicher Mathematik zueinander – ist die Mathematik kulturabhängig? (2017) Bréard A Book chapter / Article in edited volumes Meng Sen and Shen Linyi: two actors, two careers in the history of modern statistics in China (2017) Bréard A Book chapter / Article in edited volumes