[INDOLOGY] CHSTM History of Science in Early South Asia: call for presentations

[Dagmar Wujastyk]

Dear all,
May I ask you to respond off-list, writing to me and Lisa directly:
d.wujastyk at gmail.com and lisallette at gmail.com
Many thanks!
Dagmar

On Thu, 7 Aug 2025 at 10:50, Satyanad Kichenassamy <
satyanad.kichenassamy at univ-reims.fr> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Thanks for the announcement.
>
> If you wish, I could explain some of my recent work on the developement
> of mathematics as apodictic discourse in India. Most of the relevant
> papers since 2006, except the most recent ones, may be downloaded from
> my web page (see the signature below). For the ones I haven't yet put on
> a reprint server, here is a link
>
>
> https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=7ebd10a4-5b1e-4005-bdc1-70500af755c0
>
> The languages of the texts studied include Sanskrit and Tamil, as well
> as Pali & Chinese (we translated for the first time a Chinese text on
> the reception of Indian mathematics in the 6th c.). The conclusions that
> admit of generalization to other cultural areas are relevant for
> mathematical texts in Italian, German, Russian,... but these mostly do
> not deal with South Asia.
>
> Possible topics on which these papers have provided new information
> could include the following, mostly based on Sanskrit texts:
>
> - how the theorem on the square of the diagonal of an oblong was stated
> and derived in India
>
> - the relation between the invention of mathematics as discourse and
> Indian theories of ritual
>
> - the invention of the positional system with zero and writing in India,
> on the basis of Sanskrit and Tamil sources
>
> - mathematics of the Vedic period as the foundation of later Indian
> mathematics
>
> Let me know if any of these (or other issues related to these papers) is
> of interest to your project. By the way, I will be teaching a course at
> the Sorbonne in Paris starting October 17 (hybrid mode, in French &
> English) on some of these issues. Details are on my web page. Of course,
> feel free to forward the information to any interested people.
>
> With best wishes,
>
>           Satyanad Kichenassamy
>
> Le 07/08/2025 à 18:07, Dagmar Wujastyk via INDOLOGY a écrit :
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > Lisa Brooks and I are currently working on the schedule of the
> forthcoming
> > season of our online group "History of Science in Early South Asia"with
> the
> > Consortium for the History of Science and Medicine . See
> > https://www.chstm.org/group/history-science-early-south-asia
> >
> > The working group brings together scholars who study the history of
> science
> > in South Asia before about 1800 and as discoverable from literatures in
> > Sanskrit and other indigenous Indian languages. We have had talks on
> > mathematics, medicine, astronomy, alchemy, metallurgy and others so far.
> > The group meets monthly during the academic year. We welcome the
> > presentation of individual and group work-in-progress, facilitated
> > discussions of published articles and books, and focused reading sessions
> > in Indic languages.
> >
> > We still have several open slots for the new season, starting in
> September.
> > Please get in touch with Lisa and me if you would like to present or
> > discuss your research. We welcome both new and established scholars.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Dagmar (and Lisa)
> >
> > Dagmar Wujastyk
> > Associate Professor, History, Classics, and Religion, University of
> Alberta
> >
> >
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> **********************************************
> Satyanad KICHENASSAMY
> Professor of Mathematics
> Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Reims  (CNRS, UMR9008)
>      and GREI (EPHE-Paris and Sorbonne-Université)
> Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
> F-51687 Reims Cedex 2
> France
> Web: https://www.normalesup.org/~kichenassamy
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