The ERC research project on Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World (SAW), Paris, will host three events in the month of March.
The SAW project is dedicated to mathematical sources from the ancient world, and specifically, though not exclusively, to the sources produced in Mesopotamia, China, and the Indian sub-continent. The ambition of SAW is to develop new theoretical approaches to the history of ancient mathematics, in order to highlight the variety of practices in these fields that are too often presented today as homogeneous wholes, that is, “Mesopotamian mathematics”, “Chinese mathematics”, and “Indian mathematics”. To this end, SAW intends to concentrate on the mathematical sources relating to two activities: astral sciences and state finance administrations. The goal is to create resources that will promote a new representation of the history of mathematics.
March 19-20, 2015, University Paris Diderot
SAW Exploratory Workshop on “Astral sciences, Mathematics and Rituals,” organised by Karine Chemla, Sho Hirose, Agathe Keller and Daniel P. Morgan, will explore the topic in view of organising next year a more important meeting on the promising issues.
Speakers: Michio Yano (Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan), Bill Mak (Kyoto University, Japan), Yiwen Zhu (Sun Yatsen University, China), Setsuro Ikeyama (Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan)
Link to workshop programme.
March 23-24, 2015, University Paris Diderot
SAW International Conference on “Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk”, organised by Christine Proust and John Steele and supported by the European project SAW (CNRS & University Paris Diderot) and the Department of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University, will shed light on mathematical practices from the perspective of a more global approach to scholarly activities in Uruk at the time.
Speakers: Philippe Clancier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), John Steele (Brown University, SAW project), Christine Proust (Sphère, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, SAW Project), Mathieu Ossendrijver (Humboldt University, SAW Project), Hermann Hunger (University of Vienna), Julia Krul (Leiden University), Paul-Alain Beaulieu (University of Toronto), Alexander Jones (New-York University)
Link to conference programme.
March 26-27-28 and 30-31, 2015, University Paris Diderot
SAW Conference on “Mathematical practices in relation to the Astral sciences”, organised by Karine Chemla (Sphère, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, SAW Project), Matthieu Husson (CNRS, SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris & SAW Project), Agathe Keller (Sphère, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, SAW Project), Christine Proust (Sphère, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, SAW Project) and the SAW group, will officially conclude phase 2 of the SAW project.
Speakers: Alexander Jones (New York University, USA), Wang Xiaohu (School of Public Administration, South China Normal University, China), Michio Yano (Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan), Steve Shnider (Bar Ilan University, Israel), Karine Chemla (Sphère, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, SAW Project), Li Liang (Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China & SAW Project), Sho Hirose (Sphère, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, SAW Project), Setsuro Ikeyama (Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan, Chen Zhihui (Sphère, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, SAW Project), Hermann Hunger (University of Vienna, Austria), Glenn Van Brummelen (Quest University, Canada), Clemency Montelle (University of Canterbury, New Zealand & SAW Project), Mathieu Ossendrijver (Humboldt University, Germany & SAW Project), Nathan Sidoli (Waseda University, Japan, SAW Project), Daniel Morgan (Sphère, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, SAW Project), Agathe Keller (Sphère, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, SAW Project), Matthieu Husson (CNRS, SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris & SAW Project), John Steele (Brown University, USA & SAW Project), Zhu Yiwen (Sun Yatsen University, China), Taro Mimura (University of Manchester, UK)
Link to conference programme.
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