Global Life Histories of Numbers

Bréard A (2025)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Edited Volume

Subtype: Special issue of a journal

Publication year: 2025

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Series: ISIS

City/Town: Chicago, IL

Book Volume: 116

URI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/2025/116/1

Abstract

What do we gain from looking at numbers biographically? The idea of this focus section began with this open question rather than the axiom that biographic narratives are a powerful tool that serve to throw a spotlight on a numerical entity as the central character of a history of knowledge circulation and conceptual change. It reconsiders the sociohistorical dynamics of quantification by probing a novel approach to its global history, where the protagonists are the numbers themselves.

Editors with CRIS profile

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

How to cite

APA:

Bréard, A. (Ed.) (2025). Global Life Histories of Numbers. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.

MLA:

Bréard, Andrea, ed. Global Life Histories of Numbers. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2025.

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