The confluence of the Yellow River and the Mediterranean: synthesis of European mathematics and Chinese mathematics during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

International audience<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">Transmission of mathematics between China and other parts of the world already went on in the ancient period. </span><span style="font-size: small;">This presentation will however focus on a later period from the early seventeenth century onwards, when the transmission was mainly from the Western world into China.</span></span></p> <p>