From China to Paris

de Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, Joseph W. Dauben, Menso Folkerts, Benno van Dalen

The reports of a conference of 11 scholars who began the task of examing together primary sources that might shed som elight on exactly how and in what fomrs mathematical problems, concepts, and techniques may have been transmitted between various civilizations, from antiquity down to the European Renaissance following more or less the legendary silk routes between China and Western Europe.