Prof. Dr. Dr. Andrea Bréard
Chair for Sinology with a focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China (Alexander von Humboldt-Professor)
Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Middle East and East Asia
FAU MoD Steering Committee (2021- 2024)
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
andrea.breard@fau.de
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Sinology, History of Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Data Sciences, Humanities
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Challenge China: Kooperation heute?
Panel discussion “Challenge China: Kooperation heute?”, BMBF-funded project KoWinChi (Competent Scientific Interaction with China). April 24, 2024
Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen in China? Mathematik aus fernöstlicher Perspektive
#NdW22: Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen in China? Mathematik aus fernöstlicher Perspektive, Long Night of Sciences. May 21, 2022
#Humboldtian: Andrea Bréard and Kristian Franze: Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
Andrea Bréard. Humboldtian, May 12, 2022
Publications
2023
LI SHANLAN. Catégories analogues d'accumulations discrètes
Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023
(Bibliothèque Chinoise, Vol.40)
ISBN: 978-2-251-45491-7
URL: https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/9782251454917/categories-analogues-d-accumulations-discretes :
Reconstructing Giovanni Vacca’s Collection in the Vatican Library. A Window into Mathematical Books in China (1907–1908)
In: Vatican Library Review 2 (2023), p. 53–74
ISSN: 2772-8633
DOI: 10.1163/27728641-00201001
URL: https://brill.com/view/journals/vlr/2/1/article-p53_3.xml :
2022
Arunabh Ghosh, Making it Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China
In: East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 54 (2022), p. 323-327
ISSN: 1562-918X
DOI: 10.1163/26669323-20220007
URL: https://brill.com/view/journals/east/54/2/article-p323_010.xml
(Rezension) :
Charlotte-V Pollet, The Empty and the Full: Li Ye and the Way of Mathematics. Geometrical Procedures by Sections of Areas
In: East Asian Science, Technology and Society 16 (2022), p. 136-139
ISSN: 1875-2160
DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2021.2020998
(Rezension) :
«History of Science and Technology in China»: une histoire vue de l’intérieur de la Chine
In: Revue des Questions Scientifiques 193 (2022), p. 157-164
ISSN: 0035-2160
URL: https://www.rqs.be/app/views/revue.php?id=553 :
Numbers and Narratives — or : When Russell meets Zhu Shijie to discuss Philosophy of Mathematics
In: Laval Theologique et Philosophique 78 (2022), p. 365–384
ISSN: 0023-9054
DOI: 10.7202/1097879ar
URL: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1097879ar :
Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia : Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches / edited by M. Mak Bill and Eric Huntington. – Leiden: Brill, 2022
In: Revue des Questions Scientifiques (2022), p. 463 – 465
ISSN: 0035-2160
Open Access: https://www.rqs.be/app/views/revue.php?id=557 :
Wu Dingliang (1894–1969) and the Statistical Definition of a Chinese Race
In: Histoire et Mesure 37 (2022), p. 71-98
ISSN: 0982-1783
DOI: 10.4000/histoiremesure.15764
URL: https://journals.openedition.org/histoiremesure/15789 :
2021
Hexagrams and Mathematics: Symbolic Approaches to Prediction from the Song to the Qing
In: Tze-ki Hon (ed.): The Other Yijing. The Book of Changes in Chinese History, Politics, and Everyday Life, Leiden: Brill, 2021, p. 192-220 (Prognostication in History, Vol.8)
ISBN: 978-90-04-50003-7
DOI: 10.1163/9789004500037_009 :
Stalk and Other Divination Traditions Prior to the Changes Canon: Views from Newly-Discovered Texts
In: Tze-ki Hon (ed.): The Other Yijing. The Book of Changes in Chinese History, Politics, and Everyday Life, Leiden: Brill, 2021, p. 23-68 (Prognostication in History, Vol.8)
ISBN: 978-90-04-50003-7
DOI: 10.1163/9789004500037_003 , :
2020
Inductive Arguments in the Midst of Smoke: “Proving” Rhetorically and Visually That Algorithms Work
In: Martin Hofmann, Joachim Kurtz, Ari Daniel Levine (ed.): Powerful Arguments - Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China, Leiden: Brill, 2020, p. 234-276 (Sinica Leidensia, Vol.146)
ISBN: 9789004423626
DOI: 10.1163/9789004423626_007 :
Cracking bones and numbers: solving the enigma of numerical sequences on ancient Chinese artifacts
In: Archive For History of Exact Sciences 74 (2020), p. 313-343
ISSN: 0003-9519
DOI: 10.1007/s00407-019-00245-9 , :
早期统计学家传略分册
Peking 北京: 2020
(中华生物医学统计大辞典 (Chinese Dictionaries of Biology, Medicine, and Statistics))
ISBN: 9787503794322 , , (ed.):
2019
400 Millionen - Globale Wirkungen einer mächtigen Zahl
In: Haas, Stefan; Schneider, Michael C.; Bilo, Nicolas (ed.): Die Zählung der Welt. Kulturgeschichte der Statistik vom 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019, p. 215 - 232 (Studien zur Alltags- und Kulturgeschichte, Vol.32)
ISBN: 978-3-515-12117-0 :
Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity. Essays on the Global Historical Entanglements of the Science of Numbers in China
Cham: Springer, 2019
ISBN: 9783319936949
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93695-6 :
(Philo-)Logica-Mathematica –Giovanni Vacca’s (1872-1953) attempts of translation between mathematical formulas and Chinese text via simplified Latin
In: Geschichte der Germanistik 55/56 (2019), p. 16 - 33
ISSN: 1613-0758
DOI: 10.5771/9783835343740-16 :
Statistics
In: Howard Chiang (ed.): Human Sciences in China, Brill, 2019, p. 303–336 (China Studies, Vol.40)
ISBN: 9789004397620
DOI: 10.1163/9789004397620_017 :
2018
How to quantify the value of domino combinations? Divination and shifting rationalities in late imperial China
In: Michael Lackner (ed.): Coping with the Future, Brill Academic Publishers, 2018, p. 499-529 (Sinica Leidensia, Vol.138)
DOI: 10.1163/9789004356788_020 :
Numbers as Signs. Recreative reflections on conceptual entanglements between mathematics, divination and language in the modern era
In: Iwo Amelung, Joachim Kurtz (ed.): Reading the Signs: Language, History, and Prognostication. Festschrift for Michael Lackner, München: Iudicium, 2018, p. 429 - 453
ISBN: 978-3-86205-615-6 :
2017
Das Verhältnis von indischer, arabischer und westlicher Mathematik zueinander – ist die Mathematik kulturabhängig?
In: Otfried Höffe, Jörg Hacker (ed.): Wissenschaften im interkulturellen Dialog – Sciences in the Intercultural Dialogue, Halle: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2017, p. 81 - 98 (Nova Acta Leopoldina, Vol.414)
ISBN: 978-3-8047-3705-1
URL: https://www.leopoldina.org/en/publications/detailview/publication/wissenschaften-im-interkulturellen-dialog-sciences-in-the-intercultural-dialogue/ :
Euclide en Chine ou: comment faire communiquer différentes cultures mathématiques ?
In: Repères 109 (2017), p. 5 - 22
ISSN: 1157-285X
Open Access: https://publimath.univ-irem.fr/numerisation/WR/IWR17013/IWR17013.pdf :
Meng Sen and Shen Linyi: two actors, two careers in the history of modern statistics in China
In: Catherine Jami (ed.): Human Mobility and the Circulation of Scientific and Technical Knowledge in Late Imperial China, Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, 2017, p. 267 - 293 (Bibliothèque de l'Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, Vol.XXXIX)
ISBN: 978-2-85757-077-6 :
2016
Imagined Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounter by Roger Hart
In: Mathematical Intelligencer 38 (2016), p. 80-82
ISSN: 0343-6993
DOI: 10.1007/s00283-015-9598-x :
Logik und Universalsprache - Leibniz’ Ideen 200 Jahre später
In: Martin Grötschel, Eberhard Knobloch, Juliane Schiffers, Mimmi Woisnitza, Günter M. Ziegler (ed.): Vision als Aufgabe. Das Leibniz-Universum im 21. Jahrhundert, Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2016, p. 277 - 297
ISBN: 978-3-939818-67-0 :
2015
What Diagrams Argue in Late Imperial Chinese Combinatorial Texts
In: Early Science and Medicine 20 (2015), p. 241-264
ISSN: 1573-3823
DOI: 10.1163/15733823-00203p02 :
2014
Homo ludens mathematicus: La quantification du hasard dans les pratiques combinatoires en Chine [Homo ludens mathematicus: The Quantification of Chance in Combinatorial Practices in China]
In: Études Chinoises 33 (2014), p. 73--102 :
On the Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge in Versified Form in China
In: Alain Bernard, Christine Proust (ed.): Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives, Dordrecht: Springer Nature, 2014, p. 155-185 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Vol.301)
ISBN: 978-94-007-5121-7
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5122-4_7 :
History of mathematics education in East Asia in premodern times
In: Alexander Karp, Gert Schubring (ed.): Handbook on the History of Mathematics Education, New York: Springer, 2014, p. 153-174
ISBN: 978-1-4614-9154-5
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9155-2_8 , :
2013
China
In: Robin Wilson, John J. Watkins (ed.): Combinatorics: Ancient and Modern, Oxford University Press, 2013, p. 65-82
ISBN: 9780199656592
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199656592.003.0003 :
War und ist Mathematik in China anders? Ein Ausblick auf historische Narration und neue Trends
In: Mitteilungen der Mathematischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg 33 (2013)
ISSN: 0340-4358 :
2012
Chimie et Révolution. La chimie au lendemain des révolutions. De l’après-Lavoisier à Gay-Lussac à l’Ecole polytechnique
Palaiseau: 2012
(Bulletin de la SABIX, Vol. 50)
URL: http://www.sabix.org/bulletin/sabixb50.htm (ed.):
Divination with Hexagrams as Combinatorial Practice
In: Studies of Zhouyi = Zhouyi-yanjiu 周易研究 8 (2012), p. 157-174
ISSN: 1003-3882 :
Jean-Claude Martzloff: Le calendrier chinois: structure et calculs (104 av. J.-C.-1644). Indétermination céleste et réforme permanente. La construction chinoise officielle du temps quotidien discret à partir d’un temps mathématique caché, linéaire et continu
In: Historia Mathematica 39 (2012), p. 335-338
ISSN: 0315-0860
DOI: 10.1016/j.hm.2012.01.001
(Rezension) :
Surveying the Coast: Theory and Practice as Reflected in Mathematical Sources and Maps
海洋、空間意識與文化交會: 第二屆輿圖學國際學術研討會 (Oceans, Consciousness of Space and Cultural Interflow: The Second International Symposium of Cartography) (Institute of Taiwan History at Academia Sinica, National Palace Museum and National Tsing-Hua University, November 27, 2012 - November 29, 2012)
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4622.6007 :
2011
Usages et destins des savoirs mathématiques dans les Encyclopédies aux dix mille trésors des Ming
In: Annick Horiuchi (ed.): Pratiques lettrées au Japon et en Chine XVIIe-XIXe siècle, 2011, p. 103 - 123 (Études Japonaises, Vol.V) :
2010
Knowledge and Practice of Mathematics in Late Ming Daily life Encyclopedias
In: Florence Bretelle-Establet (ed.): Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science, Springer, 2010, p. 305-329 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science book series, Vol.265)
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3676-6_10
URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-3676-6_10 :
统计学在近代中国的演变——从社会统计到数理统计
In: Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) (2010), p. 61-67
ISSN: 1008-7095
URL: http://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTOTAL-SHJX201003009.htm , :
2008
A summation algorithm from 11th century China. Possible relations between structure and argument
4th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2008 (, June 15, 2008 - June 20, 2008)
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2008
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69407-6_8 :
Reform, Bureaucratic Expansion and Production of Numbers: Statistics in China at the Turn of the 20th Century (Habilitation, 2008) :
2006
Robert Hart and China's statistical revolution
In: Modern Asian Studies 40 (2006), p. 605 - 629
ISSN: 0026-749X
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X06002101 :
1999
Re-Kreation eines mathematischen Konzeptes im chinesischen Diskurs: ‘Reihen’ vom 1. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert
Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 1999
(Boethius, Vol.42)
ISBN: 978-3-515-07451-3
URL: https://www.steiner-verlag.de/Re-Kreation-eines-mathematischen-Konzeptes-im-chinesischen-Diskurs/9783515074513 :
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