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Numeracy has shaped human history as much as literacy: mathematics
has enabled us to measure the cosmos, control the Earth, and create
all technological change. A Cultural History of Mathematics
presents the first comprehensive and global history from antiquity
to today. The work is divided into 6 volumes, with each volume
covering the same topics, so readers can either study a
period/volume or follow a topic across history. The 6 volumes
cover: Antiquity (c.3000 BCE-500 CE); the Medieval Age (500-1400);
the Early Modern Age (1450-1687); the Eighteenth Century
(1687-1800); the Nineteenth Century (1800-1914); the Modern Age
(1914-present). Themes (and chapter titles) are: everyday numeracy;
practice & profession; inventing mathematics; mathematics &
worldviews; describing & understanding the world; mathematics
& technological change; representing mathematics. The page
extent for the pack is approximately 1536pp. Each volume opens with
Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes,
Bibliography, and an Index. The Cultural Histories Series A
Cultural History of Mathematics is part of The Cultural Histories
Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for
libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase
and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a
fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by
annual subscription or perpetual access (see
www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
China is emerging as a new superpower in science and technology,
reflected in the success of its spacecraft and high-velocity Maglev
trains. While many seek to understand the rise of China as a
technologically-based power, the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s
may seem an unlikely era to explore for these insights. Despite the
widespread verdict of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution as
an unmitigated disaster for China, a number of recent scholars have
called for re-examining Maoist science-both in China and in the
West. At one time Western observers found much to admire in
Chairman Mao's mass science, his egalitarian effort to take science
out of the ivory tower and place it in the hands of the
disenfranchised peasant, the loyal worker, and the patriot soldier.
Chunjuan Nancy Wei and Darryl E. Brock have assembled a rich mix of
talents and topics related to the fortunes and misfortunes of
science, technology, and medicine in modern China, while tracing
its roots to China's other great student revolution-the May Fourth
Movement. Historians of science, political scientists,
mathematicians, and others analyze how Maoist science served modern
China in nationalism, socialism, and nation-building-and also where
it failed the nation and the Chinese people. If the Cultural
Revolution contributed to China's emerging space program and
catalyzed modern malaria treatments based on Traditional Chinese
Medicine, it also provided the origins of a science talent gap and
the milieu from which a one-child policy would arise. Given the
fundamental importance of China today, and of East Asia generally,
it is imperative to have a better understanding of its most recent
scientific history, but especially that history in a period of
crisis and how that crisis was resolved. What is at issue here is
not only the specific domain of the history of science, but the
social and scientific policies of China generally as they developed
and were applied prior to, during, and after the Cultural
Revolution.
China is emerging as a new superpower in science and technology,
reflected in the success of its spacecraft and high-velocity Maglev
trains. While many seek to understand the rise of China as a
technologically-based power, the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s
may seem an unlikely era to explore for these insights. Despite the
widespread verdict of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution as
an unmitigated disaster for China, a number of recent scholars have
called for re-examining Maoist science-both in China and in the
West. At one time Western observers found much to admire in
Chairman Mao's mass science, his egalitarian effort to take science
out of the ivory tower and place it in the hands of the
disenfranchised peasant, the loyal worker, and the patriot soldier.
Chunjuan Nancy Wei and Darryl E. Brock have assembled a rich mix of
talents and topics related to the fortunes and misfortunes of
science, technology, and medicine in modern China, while tracing
its roots to China's other great student revolution-the May Fourth
Movement. Historians of science, political scientists,
mathematicians, and others analyze how Maoist science served modern
China in nationalism, socialism, and nation-building-and also where
it failed the nation and the Chinese people. If the Cultural
Revolution contributed to China's emerging space program and
catalyzed modern malaria treatments based on Traditional Chinese
Medicine, it also provided the origins of a science talent gap and
the milieu from which a one-child policy would arise. Given the
fundamental importance of China today, and of East Asia generally,
it is imperative to have a better understanding of its most recent
scientific history, but especially that history in a period of
crisis and how that crisis was resolved. What is at issue here is
not only the specific domain of the history of science, but the
social and scientific policies of China generally as they developed
and were applied prior to, during, and after the Cultural
Revolution.
The Twenty-First International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) was
held in Kyoto, Japan, from August 21 through 29, 1990, the first
congress that has taken place in the Eastern hemisphere. On this
occasion, Japanese historians of mathe- matics organized the
History of Mathematics Symposium which was held at the Sanjo
Conference Hall of the University of Tokyo on August 31 and
September 1, as one of the related conferences of the Congress. The
symposium was officially sponsored by the Executive Committee of
the ICM 90, the History of Science So- ciety of Japan, and the
International Commission on the History of Mathematics. The
Executive Committee consisted of Murata Tamotsu (Chairperson,
Momoyama Gakuin University), Sugiura Mitsuo (Vice-Chairperson,
Tsuda College), Sasaki Chikara (Secretary, The University of
Tokyo), Adachi Norio (Waseda University), Nagaoka Ryosuke (Tsuda
College until 1990, now Daito Bunka University), and Hirano Yoichi
(Treasurer, Tokai University). The symposium emphasized the
following three fields of study: (1) mathe- matical traditions in
the East, (2) the history of modern European mathematics, and (3)
interaction between mathematical research and the history of
mathemat- ics. These fields were chosen mainly because, first, the
symposium was related to the ICM, the most important congress of
working mathematicians, and, second, the Kyoto ICM was held in a
non-Western country for the first time. The sym- posium consisted
of the two Sessions: Session A for invited speakers and Session B
for short communications.
Writing the History of Mathematics provides both an intellectual
and a social history of the development of the subject from the
first such effort written in ancient Greece to recent efforts in
the 20th century. A special project of the International Commission
on History of Mathematics, this work is the result of more than ten
years of collaboration by a team of 32 experts, each writing about
the history of mathematics in their own countries or regions, and
drawing upon extensive research and archival study. In addition to
individuals, such institutions as universities, academies,
institutes, libraries, and the like are also covered, including
journals, encyclopedias, and other collective projects that promote
history of mathematics. The book also includes portraits of
twenty-five historians of mathematics.
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