Ancient Chinese Mathematics in Action: Wu Wen-Tsun''s Nationalist Historicism after the Cultural Revolution
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://easts.dukejournals.org/content/6/1/41.full" target="_blank" >http://easts.dukejournals.org/content/6/1/41.full</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/18752160-1506346" target="_blank" >10.1215/18752160-1506346</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ancient Chinese Mathematics in Action: Wu Wen-Tsun''s Nationalist Historicism after the Cultural Revolution
Original language description
The article attempts to theoretically explain the origins of the nationalist and historicist turn of the Chinese mathematician Wu Wen-Tsun (born 1919). Wu returned to China from France in 1951 as an internationally recognized expert on algebraic topology, but his career was frustrated by political disruption and isolation from international research, especially during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). After he studied ancient Chinese mathematics during the 1974 campaign against Confucianism (Pi Lin PiKong ????), he defended its relevance for modern mathematics and set out to demonstrate it in his own work. This coincided with Wu's reorientation from algebraic topology to mechanization of geometric proofs. Wu claimed that ancient Chinese mathematics inspired the method he developed, both by its general style and by specific techniques. His use of ancient Chinese mathematics was connected to his calls for an independent mathematical tradition in China. I argue that he turned to nationa
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AB - History
OECD FORD branch
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
East Asian Science, Technology and Society
ISSN
1875-2160
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Volume of the periodical
6
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
41-64
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