41. No,19 : Some Work On Vertex-transitive Graphs By Chinese Mathematicians IV Title Some work on vertextransitive graphs by chinese mathematicians IV.? Speaker Ming-Yao Xu(Peking Univ.) ? Time Wed. Feb. 23, 2000, 1500 http://com2mac.postech.ac.kr/cgi-bin/read.cgi?board=seminar2000&y_number=18&nnew

42. No,17 : Some Work On Vertex-transitive Graphs By Chinese Mathematicians II Title Some work on vertextransitive graphs by chinese mathematicians II ?Speaker Ming-Yao Xu(Peking Univ.) ? Time Mon. Feb. 14, 2000, 1500 http://com2mac.postech.ac.kr/cgi-bin/read.cgi?board=seminar2000&y_number=16&nnew

43. BSHM: Abstracts -- V rods may have allowed chinese mathematicians to suggest the existence of an have been used by early medieval chinese mathematicians are calculated http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/bshm/abstracts/V.html

The British Society for the History of Mathematics HOME About BSHM BSHM Council Join BSHM ... Search BSHM Abstracts A B C D ... Z These listings contain all abstracts that have appeared in BSHM Newsletters up to Newsletter 46. BSHM Abstracts - V Valentine, Jeremy ‘Hobbes’s political geometry’, History of the human sciences Geometry held a privileged position in Hobbes’s political thought because geometry provides an exemplary model of philosophical writing and because it authorizes a social ordering of the body politic as a self-sufficient enterprise. Vanden Eynde, Ria, ‘Historical evolution of the concept of homotopic paths’, Archive for history of exact sciences The emergence and development of the concept of homotopy of paths, from Lagrange and Cauchy to the early 20th century, illustrates how the introduction of a concept depends upon the interests of the mathematicians concerned. Vardi, Ilan, ‘Archimedes’ cattle problem’, American mathematical monthly This challenge problem, simply formulated but difficult of solution, reaffirms the greatness of Archimedes. It seems unlikely that he could have solved the problem, though, or even known that a solution exists. Velamazan, Angeles, ‘The

44. ICCM 98 International Congress of chinese mathematicians (ICCM). Beijing, China.December 12 16, 1998. The International Congress of chinese mathematicians (ICCM) http://www.math.tamu.edu/~huai-dong.cao/iccm/

International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) Beijing, China December 12 - 16, 1998 The International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) will be held in Beijing during the period of December 12 - December 16, 1998. The 1st ICCM, is financially supported by Mr. Ronnie Chan and Mr. Gerald Chan. The generous donation of the Chan brothers is also instrumental to the formation of the Morningside Center in Beijing. The conference will consist of plenary addresses, 45-minute addresses, short contributed talks, as well as poster sessions. For details, see Program below. In addition, there will be four Morningside Lectures . It is expected that English will be used in most talks. During the opening ceremony, Morningside Awards will be given out. It is our goal to continue having ICCMs in a regular and rotating basis. After the first meeting in Mainland China, we anticipate that future ICCMs will be hosted by institutions in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. List below is various information about the congress. If you have any question or need further information, you may contact the ICCM at iccm@math.tamu.edu

45. When Is A Triangle Not A Triangle chinese mathematicians used similar techniques to calculate terrestrial andcelestial distances, including the distance to the “ends of the earth” and the http://www.cityu.edu.hk/ccs/Newsletter/newsletter5/Triangle.htm

When is a Triangle Not a Triangle? Lisa Raphals and celestial distances, including the distance to the ¡§ends of the earth¡¨ and the ¡§height of heaven.¡¨ They incorrectly assumed that the earth was flat, but correctly assumed that the sun was a finite, and measurable, distance from the earth. Their calculations were less accurate than Eratosthenes¡¦, but no less mathematically well reasoned. Similar Triangles in Greek Astronomy During the third century B.C.E., Greek mathematicians and astronomers developed hypotheses and calculations regarding the motion and sizes and distance of the sun, moon and earth. Aristarchus of Samos (310-230 B.C.E.) is best known as the first Greek exponent of a heliocentric theory, a view that his contemporaries rejected because it conflicted with the commonsense view that the earth did not move. In his one surviving work, he used assumptions and the properties of similar triangles to ¡§demonstrate¡¨ ratios between the diameters of the earth, sun and moon and their distances from each other. For example: ¡§The distance of the sun from the earth is greater than 18 times, but less than 20 times the distance of the moon from the earth.¡¨ The Greek text is a list of procedures for naming points and drawing lines and circles between them, with no visual representation. (Modern editions and translations typically add an illustrative diagram.) The Greek text has the look and feel of a proof by deduction from the properties of similar triangles, rather than calculation from actual measurements.

46. Math History - Pre-historic And Ancient Times About 190BC, chinese mathematicians use powers of 10 to express About 100BC,chinese mathematicians are the first to introduce negative numbers. http://lahabra.seniorhigh.net/pages/teachers/pages/math/timeline/MpreAndAncient.

Math History Timeline Pre-historic and Ancient Times 1,000,000 B.C. - 500 A.D. Math History Prehistory and Ancient Times Middle Ages Renaissance Reformation ... 20th Century ... non-Math History Prehistory and Ancient Times Middle Ages Renaissance Reformation ... External Resources About 30000BC Palaeolithic peoples in central Europe and France record numbers on bones. About 25000BC Early geometric designs used. About 4000BC Babylonian and Egyptian calendars in use. About 3400BC The first symbols for numbers, simple straight lines, are used in Egypt. About 3000BC Babylonians begin to use a sexagesimal number system for recording financial transactions. It is a place-value system without a zero place value. About 3000BC Hieroglyphic numerals in use in Egypt. About 3000BC The abacus is developed in the Middle East and in areas around the Mediterranean. A somewhat different type of abacus is used in China. About 1950BC Babylonians solve quadratic equations.

47. Homepage Of Professor LEE SENG LUAN China, 1997; Member of Scientific Committee, Asian Mathematical Conference International Congress of chinese mathematicians, Taipei, December 2001; http://ww1.math.nus.edu.sg/head/leesl.htm

Homepage of S. L. Lee Curriculum Vitae Name: LEE Seng Luan Designation: Professor and Head Postal Address: Department of Mathematics National University of Singapore 2 Science Drive Singapore Email address: matleesl@nus.edu.sg Education: University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur , B.Sc. ( Hons University of Alberta Canada , Ph.D. (1974) Employment Record: University of Science of Malaysia Penang National University of Singapore , since 1987 Research Interests: Splines , Geometric Modelling , Wavelets, Approximation, Information Processing Awards and Honours State Scholarship (1965 – 1969); Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship (1971 – 1974); CNRS Fellowship, INRIA, France Singapore National Science Award (1998). Professional Activities: Chairman of the Organising Committee, Wavelets Workshop, Singapore, 1994; Member of Scientific Committee, Guangzhou International Symposium on Computational Mathematics, China, 1997; Member of Scientific Committee, Asian Mathematical Conference 2000, Manila; Member of Programme Committee, The Second International Conference on Wavelets Analysis and Its Applications, Hong Kong, December 2001; President, Singapore Mathematical Society

48. Chinese Mathematicians chinese mathematicians. Suntzi (? ~ ?) Following the Han period lived themathematician Sun-tzi, who wrote a book containing much material similar to that http://library.thinkquest.org/27694/Chinese Mathematicians.htm

Chinese Mathematicians Sun-tzi (? ~ ?) Following the Han period lived the mathematician Sun-tzi, who wrote a book containing much material similar to that of the Arithmetic in Nine Sections. It is in this work that we encounter the first Chinese problem in indeterminate analysis : “There are things of an unknown number which when divided by 3 leave 2, by 5 leave 3 and by 7 leave 2. What is the smallest number?” Here we find the beginnings of the famous Chinese Remainder Theorem of elementary number theory. Wang Fan (? ~ ?) Tsu Ch’ung-chih (430 AD-501AD) Ch’in Kiu-shao, Li Yeh, Yang Hui, Chu Shi-kie The latter part of the Sung Dynasty through the early part of the Yuan Dynasty marks the greatest period in ancient Chinese mathematics. Many important mathematicians flourished and many worthy mathematical books appeared. Among the mathematicians were Ch’in Kiu-shao, Li Yeh, Yang Hui, and the greatest of all, Ch’in Shi-kie. Ch’in took up indeterminate equations where Sun Tzi had left off. He was also the first Chinese to give a separate symbol, “0” for zero. He was one of the mathematicians who generalized the method of extracting square roots (as given in the Arithmetic in Nine Sections) to equations of higher degrees, leading to the numerical method of solving algebraic equations we today refer to as Horner’s method, since it was independently found by the English schoolmaster, William George Horner (1786-1837) and published by him in 1819. He was completely unaware of the fact that he had rediscovered an ancient Chinese computational scheme.

49. ICM 2002 - Opening Ceremony Mathematical activities in ancient China can be traced back to early time.The major pursuit of the ancient chinese mathematicians was to solve problems http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/opening_speech.html

ICM 2002-Opening Ceremony Speech by Jacob Palis President of IMU Dear Colleagues, Ladies and Gentleman: I am greatly honored and pleased to welcome you all to ICM 2002, the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians. Unfortunately, I have to register that he, Jurgen Moser and Lion's former adviser, the Fields Medallist Laurent Schwartz passed away in the last years. Of prime importance in this period, has been the activity of the Union's Committee on Electronic Information and Communication and the work of the IMU Commissions on Development and Exchanges (CDE), Instruction (ICMI) and History (ICHM). The present Congress is also special in other ways. For the first time, the IMU General Assembly has elected a woman to its Executive Committee and also a Chinese. Furthermore, at this occasion, the mathematical community can commemorate the creation of two new prizes. The first, called the Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics is to be jointly awarded once every four years by IMU and the German Mathematical Society. The second, in honor of Abel, shall be awarded every year by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences: similar to the Nobel Prize, it has the potential to change, in years to come, the landscape of mathematics in the world scenario of sciences. Finally, on behalf of all of us, I wish to express our sincere gratitude to the Chinese Institutions that made the Congress possible and most especially to our colleagues Zhi-ming Ma, K.C. Chang, Daqian Li, Weiyue Ding and Ya-xiang Yuan for their warm reception and excellent organization.

50. Chinese the Chinese mathematical text called the Chiu Chang was written. different chinese mathematicians over the years have supplied commentary and helped http://www.deltacollege.edu/dept/basicmath/Chinese.htm

Chinese Fraction Reducing Description: This lesson describes a method for reducing fractions used by the Chinese people as early as the first century AD. The method involves finding a common divisor, then reducing the fraction by that divisor. Curriculum Objectives: To introduce students to the concept of reducing or simplifying fractions. To show students a way to find the common divisor of a fraction. To expose students to a mathematical process from a non-European culture. Key Words: fractions simplifying fractions reducing fractions common divisor numerator denominator division Suggested Use: Chinese Fraction Reducing could be used in a basic mathematics, prealgebra or algebra course when simplifying or reducing fractions is being instructed or reviewed. CHINESE FRACTION REDUCING Near the beginning of the first century AD, about 2000 years ago, the Chinese mathematical text called the Chiu Chang was written. No one knows for sure who wrote the text, which contains nine chapters of mathematical topics important to Chinese society at the time. Problems and solutions are presented in the text, and since the answers can be difficult to understand, different Chinese mathematicians over the years have supplied commentary and helped to make the problems and solutions clearer. The first chapter, called Fang thien (Land Surveying), is mostly concerned with calculating the areas of fields (thien) using the basic unit of measurement, the fang (square unit). This chapter also discusses methods for working with fractions, including a way for simplifying (reducing) them. If you have a reducible fraction called m/n, the rule from the Chinese text for reducing m/n is this:

51. Shiing-Shen Chern - Comment - Times Online Beyond that, he was also a source of inspiration for all chinese mathematicians . Congress of Mathematicians, with 1700 chinese mathematicians in active http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1396545,00.html

NI_IFRAME('Top'); ARCHIVE CLASSIFIED SHOPPING PROMOTIONS ... WEATHER Search COMMENT Leading articles Letters to the Editor Obituaries ... Faith TIMES ONLINE Home Britain World Business ... Site Map SPECIAL REPORTS Making Skills Work European Cities Arts Power 100 The Art of Travel ... Other NI_AD('BottomLeft'); Obituaries December 10, 2004 Shiing-Shen Chern Mathematician and much-loved teacher who redefined global differential geometry IN THE international world of pure mathematics, Shiing-Shen Chern was a towering figure. From the 1940s onwards he redefined the subject of geometry, combining the global viewpoint of topology with the type of detailed calculations that used to drive Einstein to despair. Beyond that, he was also a source of inspiration for all Chinese mathematicians. Born in the final year of the Qing dynasty, and educated at a time when China was only beginning to set up Western-style universities, he spent a lifetime going back and forth from East to West carrying news of the latest developments and encouraging young mathematicians. Of those he taught, C-N. Yang won a Nobel Prize in Physics and S-T.Yau the Fields medal, its mathematical equivalent. Perhaps the ultimate measure of his achievement was his presiding, next to President Jiang Zemin, over the opening of the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians, with 1,700 Chinese mathematicians in active discussion with 2,500 from the rest of the world.

52. DOCUMENTA MATHEMATICA, Extra Vol. ICM III (1998), 799-809 Nearly a century later, chinese mathematicians explicitly linked Marxist ideologyand But during the Cultural Revolution, when chinese mathematicians http://www.math.uiuc.edu/documenta/xvol-icm/19/Dauben.MAN.html

D OCUMENTA M ATHEMATICA , Extra Volume ICM III (1998), 799-809 Joseph W. Dauben Title: Marx, Mao and Mathematics: The Politics of Infinitesimals 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: Keywords and Phrases: Full text: dvi.gz 22 k, dvi 54 k, ps.gz 809 k. Home Page of D OCUMENTA M ATHEMATICA

53. ICM 2002 In Beijing, China The AMS had an exhibit at ICM 2002 in Beijing, China, and AMS members were from developing countries—that included about 1700 chinese mathematicians. http://www.ams.org/ams/ams-at-icm2002.html

ICM 2002 in Beijing, China The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) was held in Beijing, China, August 20-28. The AMS posted the announcement about Fields Medalists Laurent Lafforgue (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France) and Vladimir Voevodsky (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ), and Nevanlinna prizewinner Madhu Sudan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA), as well as information about the awardees and background on their work on the AMS website as soon as the awards were given at the Opening Ceremony. Following the announcement, articles about the Fields Medalists appeared in newspapers and journals worldwide. The ICM website has posted highlights of the meeting , including the Opening Ceremony at the Great Hall of the People, the Fields Medals and Nevanlinna Prizes, and links to the complete scientific program. China President Jiang Zemin attended the Opening Ceremony and expressed the country’s support of the Congress and mathematics. The ICM website also provides video clips of the meeting. For seven days during the Congress the AMS hosted an exhibit of its recent book publications (including the World Directory of Mathematicians that the AMS distributes for the IMU) and provided access to MathSciNet. Many mathematicians visited the exhibit, and many of those who have written reviews for

54. Math Digest perhaps one day a Chinese mathematician will win the prestigious award. offers the precious opportunity for chinese mathematicians to learn from and http://www.ams.org/mathmedia/mathdigest/200210-icm.html

Mathematical Digest Short Summaries of Articles about Mathematics in the Popular Press "Professor hails mathematics winners." China Daily, 22 August 2002. The lead-in to this article states "Overseas Chinese mathematics professor Ye Yangho praised the winners of the Fields Medal Prize." Ye is quoted about medalist winners Lafforgue's and Voevodsky's contributions and expresses that perhaps one day a Chinese mathematician will win the prestigious award. The rest of the article gives some background on the International Congress of Mathematicians, held in Beijing in August 2002, and states "the congress in Beijing offers the precious opportunity for Chinese mathematicians to learn from and seek cooperation with their foreign counterparts." - Annette Emerson Comments: webmaster@ams.org Privacy Statement Search the AMS

55. Longym Plenary address, International Congress of chinese mathematicians, Taipei , 2001 S.S. Chern Award, Chinese Mathematical Society, 1997-1998 http://www.nim.nankai.edu.cn/nim_e/about_us/members/yiming.htm

56. Thomas Yizhao Hou Applied Mathematics, International Congress of chinese mathematicians, 2004 Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin, 1998 http://www.acm.caltech.edu/~hou/

Thomas Yizhao Hou Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied Mathematics Curriculum Vitae Recent Publications Back to the AMa home page Curriculum Vitae University Address Applied Mathematics 217-50 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91125 Tel: (626)-395-4546 Fax: (626)-578-0124 Email: hou@ama.caltech.edu Education B.S. (Mathematics), South China University of Technology, June 1982 M.S. (Mathematics), UCLA, March, 1985 Ph.D.(Mathematics), UCLA, 1987 Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Bjorn Engquist Experience Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computional Mathematics, Caltech, June 2004- present. Professor of Applied and Computional Mathematics, Caltech, Feb 1998 - present. Executive Officer of Applied and Computational Math, Caltech, July 2000 - present. Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, Caltech, June 1993 - Jan. 1998. Assstant Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute, September 1989 - June 1993. Visiting Member, Courant Institute, July 1987 - August 1989. Distinguished Visiting Professor, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Sept. 2002 present. Visiting Chaired Professor, the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, April-June, 2004.

57. Mathematics And Its Development In China This can be seen when we look at applied mathematicians in China. First ofall, chinese mathematicians find it especially difficult to go into different http://qhxb.lib.tsinghua.edu.cn/english/98n1/980107.html

58. The NSDL Scout Report For Mathematics Engineering And Technology-- Volume 3, Num on the Mathematical Art, and the work of several chinese mathematicians. listing of several chinese mathematicians and read about their careers. http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/NSDL/MET/2004/met-040813-general.php

@import url("ginclude/ScoutPageStructure.css"); @import url("ginclude/ScoutContentStructure.css"); Home The Scout Report Archives Projects ... Feedback Log In: Password: Forget your password? Create a Log In General Printable Page Internet Scout Project NSDL Scout Reports Math, Engineering, and Technology ... General First Monday: Open Access Publishing http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_8/esposito/ The peer-reviewed Internet journal, First Monday (discussed in the August 23, 1996 Scout Report), presents a dreary picture for open access publishing and research. The author of this article, Joseph J. Esposito, comments on The Unexpected Future of Open Access Publishing. Esposito is skeptical of the idea that the age of the Internet and online publishing will bring access to the world's research publications free for everyone, "by shifting the costs to other places in the value chain and disintermediating publishers." Instead, he argues that Open Access will come about at the cost of authors and their proxies. The author details his argument regarding these unanticipated outcomes in this article. [VF] Back to Contents Back to Top JEC Composites http://www.jeccomposites.com/default.html

59. Invited Talks Invited speaker The Third International Congress of chinese mathematicians, HongKong, December 1722, 2004. Discrepancy in Experimental Designs http://www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/Research/invited_talks.html

Invited Talks Tang, T. International Workshop on Scientific Computing in honor of Prof. Lin Qun on the occasion of his 70th Birthday, Beijing, July 15-16, 2006. International Conference on Calculus of Variations, PDEs and Nonlinear Analysis in honor of Prof. K.C. Chang on the occasion of his 70th Birthday, Beijing, May 22-26, 2006. Fifth International Workshop on Scientific Computing and Applications, Banff, Canada, May 18-21, 2006. International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing, Vietnam, March 6-10, 2006. Fang, K. T. "Modeling Techniques in the uniform design" 2005 International Symposium on the Uniform Experimental Design, Hunan, China, August 19-23 2005. "Uniform Design and its Recent development" The joint Meeting of Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Beijing, July 9 - 12, 2005. Keynote Speaker: "Recent Development in the uniform experimental design" International Symposium on Frontier Problems in Statistics, Beijing, July 6-8, 2005.

60. Science -- Sign In The starting point for Dauben s account, which chinese mathematicians For chinese mathematicians, though, Robinson s extension of the standard real http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/275/5304/1264

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