PhD student, SPHERE
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Cuneiform mathematics
• Roles played by diagrams in mathematical practices
• Material study of mathematical documents
• My doctoral dissertation, which is co-supervised by Christine Proust (SPHERE, UMR 7219) and Brigitte Lion (ArScAn-HAROC, UMR 7041), is entitled The use of diagrams in mathematical reasonings : a contribution based on the analysis of Old-Babylonian mathematical clay tablets.
CURRICULUM
• Since September 2017 : PhD student at the University Paris 7, in SPHERE, under the co-supervision of Christine Proust (SPHERE, UMR 7219) and Brigitte Lion (ArScAn-HAROC, UMR 7041).
Tutorial classes in mathematics.
• 2016-2017 : Master 1 in assyriology at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Master thesis entitled Catalogue raisonné of the Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid and Hellenistic metrological tablets from Babylonia under the supervision of Francis Joannès (ArScAn-HAROC, UMR 7041).
• 2015-2016 : Master 2 LOPHISS in history and philosophy of science at the University Paris 7.
Master thesis entitled Interactions between texts and diagrams in Old-Babylonian mathematical clay tablets under the supervision of Christine Proust (SPHERE, UMR 7219).
• 2013-2015 : Master in mathematics at the University Paris-Sud XI.
Agrégation in mathematics.
• 2012 : Bachelor in mathematics at the University Paris-Sud XI.
COMMUNICATIONS
• Autour de quelques difficultés soulevées par la traduction des textes mathématiques cunéiformes. Séminaire des doctorants du laboratoire SPHÈRE. Paris, February 6th, 2018.
• What diagrams tell us about practices of mathematical reasoning in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia : the example of the approximation procedure in tablet YBC 8633. Workshop « Practices of mathematical reasoning ». Paris, December 4th-7th, 2017.
• Les tablettes mathématiques et leurs diagrammes. Séminaire d’Histoire et Archéologie des Mondes Orientaux (SHAMO) du laboratoire ArScAn. Nanterre, January 12th, 2017.
Commentaries
• Zhou Xiaohan, Methods using duan ( 段 segment [of diagram]) in Yang Hui’s 楊輝 (fl. 13th century) works. Workshop « Practices of mathematical reasoning ». Paris, December 4th-7th, 2017.
• Zhou Xiaohan, Diverse scholars’ ways of dealing with the “Method duoji” (Duoji shu) in 19th and 20th century China. Workshop « Writing histories of ancient mathematics – Reflecting on past practices and opening the future, 18th – 21st centuries ». Paris, October 24th-28th, 2016.
TEACHING
• 2017-2018 : Tutorial classes in mathematics (Elementary Algebra and Analysis II) for Bachelor students in physics.