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If you have a question about this talk, please contact nobody. MHMW01 - Modern history of mathematics: emerging themes The main lacuna in the study of the mathematical sciences in Islamicate societies is the continued separation between content and context. An important aspect of this separation is the practice of ignoring the material carriers of texts providing content from the manuscripts in which they are embedded. This practice has prevented us from studying both content- and context-related features of such material carriers and reflect on their meaning for how the mathematical sciences were practiced in teaching and scholarly debates, how mathematical knowledge spread, changed, and related to other fields of knowledge, culture, or social practices, and how and where its material reproduction took place. In my talk, I will present examples for what can be done to remedy this situation in the conditions of a manuscript culture and its variations across different Islamicate societies. This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series. This talk is included in these lists:
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