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Jiri Hudecek
Tuesday 29 May 2012, 13:10-14:00
Ancient Chinese Mathematics in Action: The Mathematics and Politics of Inspiration
- đ¤ Speaker: Jiri Hudecek
- đ Date & Time: Tuesday 29 May 2012, 13:10 - 14:00
- đ Venue: Entertaining Room, Darwin College
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Abstract
The Chinese mathematician Wu Wen-Tsun (born 1919) has since the end of the Cultural Revolution (1976) developed a method of computer proofs (“mechanisation of mathematics”) using elements of old Chinese algebra. I will show how the rhetorical and ideological effect of this inspiration interplays with the actual mathematics behind it.
Series This talk is part of the Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars series.
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