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SUMMARY:Ancient Chinese Mathematics in Action: The Mathematics and Politic
 s of Inspiration - Jiri Hudecek
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CONTACT:Xinyi Liu
DESCRIPTION:The Chinese mathematician Wu Wen-Tsun (born 1919) has since th
 e end of the Cultural Revolution (1976) developed a method of computer pro
 ofs ("mechanisation of mathematics") using elements of old Chinese\nalgebr
 a. I will show how the rhetorical and ideological effect of this\ninspirat
 ion interplays with the actual mathematics behind it.
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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