Seminar 2: Diagrammatization of written mathematical practices A problem about matricesMarcus Giaquinto (University College London)Abstract TBA Restoring Computational diagrams From Thirteenth-Century Chinese Mathematical WorksKarine Chemla (School of Mathematics)In contrast to the earliest extant mathematical works in Chinese, those composed in the 13th century include what we might call computational diagrams. However, the surviving ancient editions of these works present considerable variations in important features of these diagrams. This talk intends to compare how different ancient editions of the same work diagrammatize the same computations and to examine the extent to which we can retrieve the features of the original diagrams. Feb 03 2026 13.00 - 17.00 Seminar 2: Diagrammatization of written mathematical practices Join Marcus Giaquinto (University College London) and Karine Chemla (School of Mathematics) for the second seminar of the second year of the 'Rethinking the history of mathematical symbolism' project. JCMB Room 2901
Seminar 2: Diagrammatization of written mathematical practices A problem about matricesMarcus Giaquinto (University College London)Abstract TBA Restoring Computational diagrams From Thirteenth-Century Chinese Mathematical WorksKarine Chemla (School of Mathematics)In contrast to the earliest extant mathematical works in Chinese, those composed in the 13th century include what we might call computational diagrams. However, the surviving ancient editions of these works present considerable variations in important features of these diagrams. This talk intends to compare how different ancient editions of the same work diagrammatize the same computations and to examine the extent to which we can retrieve the features of the original diagrams. Feb 03 2026 13.00 - 17.00 Seminar 2: Diagrammatization of written mathematical practices Join Marcus Giaquinto (University College London) and Karine Chemla (School of Mathematics) for the second seminar of the second year of the 'Rethinking the history of mathematical symbolism' project. JCMB Room 2901
Feb 03 2026 13.00 - 17.00 Seminar 2: Diagrammatization of written mathematical practices Join Marcus Giaquinto (University College London) and Karine Chemla (School of Mathematics) for the second seminar of the second year of the 'Rethinking the history of mathematical symbolism' project.
