The Emperor's New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority During the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722)

by Catherine Jami (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $109.66

  Jami explores how the emperor Kangxi solidified the Qing dynasty in seventeenth-century China through the appropriation of the 'Western learning', and especially the mathematics, of Jesuit missionaries. This book details not only the history of mathematical ideas, but also their political and cultural impact.