Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Published: November 2002
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9789810249403
Subjects: Science/Mathematics; History Of Science; History Of Technology; Science; General; History; Far East
First sentence: I recall that at the first conference of our Society in 1982 in Leuven, a young Chinese scholar from the Research Institute of Mathematics boldly argued that, looking back from the present-day age of the computer, the Chinese algebraic tradition, rather than the Western geometrical tradition, may have defined the main stream of the history of mathematics.