Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire – UMR 7219, laboratoire SPHERE

This seminar is organized around a presentation of a primary source and the issues it raises, followed by a reading of this edited and translated source. A session can last up to 3 hours, and is conducted by experienced researchers, doctoral students, or even Master’s students. The working language is French or English depending on the case.

Organisers : Agathe Keller, Karine Chemla, (CNRS, CHSA, SPHere), and the associated group: H. Amini, F. Cornu, C. Singh, A. Volkov

PROGRAM 2021-2022

The sessions will take place as far as possible in room Gris 734-A of the Condorcet building, on Tuesdays (except in an exceptional case where it will be on Wednesday)..
Université de Paris, campus Diderot, 4, rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris (access map)

• Friday Novembre 19 2021, 2pm - 5pm
  Najaf Haider (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  Accountancy, Record Keeping and Raqam Notation in the Mughal Empire: Reading BNF Manuscript of the Khulasatu’s Siyaq (Suplement Persan 303)

• Tuesday January 4, 2022 !! session postponed to June 7

• Tuesday February 1st, 2pm - 5pm
  Alexei Volkov (National Tsing-Hua University, China)
  Mathematical texts of Dunhuang

• Tuesday March 8
  Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHere) & A. Macé
  Equal and Unequal shares

• Wednesday April 6, 2pm - 5 pm, Room Gris, 734A
  
  – Leila Hamouda (University Tunis El Manar)
  De la preuve géométrique à la preuve purement arithmétique en théorie des nombres chez les mathématiciens arabes: lectures d’al-Khāzin (du 10e siècle), Nassīr Eddīne Tūṣī, Kamel al-Dīn ibn Yūnis (du 13e siècle) et Frenicle (du 17e siècle).
  
  – Zeinab Karmanian (University of Teheran)
  The Recension of the Conics of Apollonius by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (13th century

• Tuesday May 10
  Eleonora Sammarchi (ETH Zurich & SPHere)
  Numbers and fractions, numeri sani e numeri rotti. A comparison between Arabic arithmetical/algebraic sources and Abacus treatises
  
  • Extracts from:
    al-Uqlīdisī (10th cent.), Book on Indian Arithmetic; ed. and trans. Sa’īdān (1978)
    al-Zanjānī (13th cent.), Balance of the equation in the science of algebra and muqābala, ed. and trans. Sammarchi
    Piero Gherardi (14th cent.); Libro ài ragioni e Liber Habaci, ed. Arrighi (1987), trans. Van Egmond (1978)
    Anonimo (14th cent.), Trattato d’algibra. Ms. Fond. prin. II. V. 152, Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, ed. Franci & Pancanti (1988)

Tuesday 31, 1pm - 4pm, Room Gris, 734A (tbc), hybrid

• Alexander Jones (New York University, Institute for the Ancient World)
  Mathematical problems from some Greek papyri

• Tuesday June 7
  Catherine Singh (SPHere)
  Quelques considérations autour du kuṭṭīkāra de Mahāvīrā (continued)

• Tuesday June 28
  Next year’s program