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| Aug 7, 2011 at 22:30 | comment | added | Thomas Riepe | BTW, very much of what I heard about how technology and sports are organized in China sounds like Luhmann's sociology set into practice. So one can wonder if that is the case in sciences too, in which case "applied Agnotology" could be a theme: uni-bielefeld.de/%28en%29/ZIF/AG/2011/05-30-Carrier.html | |
| Jun 5, 2011 at 7:22 | comment | added | Thomas Riepe | My curiosity about general information comes from that China's population no. and educational advances make it a candidate for an autark science community (not only in mathematics). Perhaps there exist already math analogues to this observation by a friend?: "Few people notice that square blocks are so wide, there must be something secret in the middle, not visible from the street. And indeed in Chinatown, there are secret buildings behind buildings, notknown even to census workers. census.gov/srd/papers/pdf/ev91-06.pdf | |
| Feb 1, 2011 at 10:29 | comment | added | Neil Strickland | I know essentially nothing about what is happening mathematically in China, but I would be interested in hearing about it. Do you know any good source of general information? | |
| Apr 13, 2010 at 14:14 | history | edited | Douglas S. Stones | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Dec 14, 2009 at 4:00 | comment | added | alekzander | It may be a shame that my motivation to learn Chinese (Mandarin, I assume) for this reason will probably always stay low. Without knowing some of the language, and with institutions seeing low demand to subscribe to anything academic in Chinese, my own opportunity to come face-to-face with the language and its usefulness in math will probably remain identically zero. | |
| Dec 14, 2009 at 0:07 | history | answered | Yilan Li | CC BY-SA 2.5 |