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
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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)
Dates | 11/19 | 2022/01/4 postponed | 02/1 | 03/8 | 04/6 | 05/10 | 05/31 | 06/7 | 06/28 |
- 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 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)
- Extracts from:
Those who wish to participate remotely are invited to contact Agathe Keller with keyword "10-05-22lect-maths" as subject of mail |
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)
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VENUE:
University of Paris, campus Diderot, Building Condorcet, 4, rue ElsaMorante, 75013 - Paris
Map of campus with metro and buses stops.
Access: Metro line 14 / RER C / Station: Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
Metro line 6 / Station: Quai de la Gare
Bus 64 / stop: Tolbiac-Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
Bus 62 & 89 / stop: Avenue de France or Bibliothèque François Mitterrand (terminus)
Bus 325 / stop: Watt