Hua Loo-Keng's Popularization of Mathematics and the Cultural Revolution

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F17%3A10373276" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/17:10373276 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2017.06.009" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2017.06.009</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2017.06.009" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.endeavour.2017.06.009</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Hua Loo-Keng's Popularization of Mathematics and the Cultural Revolution
Original language description
Before 1966, Chinese mathematician Hua Loo-Keng had singled out ''Two Methods'' as a way to truly applied and useful mathematics. The Overall Planning Method, based on the Critical Path Method widely used in USA, mostly appealed to middle and upper management. This limited its spread during the Cultural Revolution. The Optimum Selection Method, also of US origin, was more mass-oriented and ready for popularization. Nevertheless, Hua met resistance from leftist radicals, whose ideological objections sprang from an underlying power struggle. Hua built popularization teams, mostly from talented younger people whose careers were disrupted by the Cultural Revolution, and thus opened a path for many of them to important roles in China's scientific infrastructure after 1976. Hua Loo-Keng's efforts, while interrupted during the Cultural Revolution and the subsequent political campaigns, were also helped by the populist ethos of the movement, and by the lack of other non-political endeavors at that time. In this sense, the Cultural Revolution gave Hua Loo-Keng's popularization its importance and long-term impact.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project
<a href="/en/project/LK11218" target="_blank" >LK11218: Deconstruction and construction of national traditions and science in China</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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