In the Qing Dynasty, a group of scholars who made great achievements in the field of arithmetic emerged
in southern Anhui, forming a distinctive Anhui school of mathematics. Within the school, knowledge was transmitted
directly by means of family chains and teacher-friend chains. The dissemination and communication also rely on
reading, mutual commentary, debate, mutual collation, contribution of prefaces or postscripts, etc. The diversity of
communication brought prosperity to the Anhui Mathematics School. In addition, Anhui Mathematics School also
interacted with scholars outside Anhui province in a similar way, most of whom are from neighboring provinces of
Anhui, which proves the regionality of the academic dissemination and communication. Though this rather closed
circle confined the expansion of Anhui Mathematics School as well as its academic broadcasting, it is also
conducive to the formation of distinctive academic views and its traditional self-identification.
ZHU Han-rui
. Regional Dissemination of Research and Learning: Internal Communication and External
Interaction of Anhui School of Mathematics in Qing Dynasty[J]. Journal of Chaohu University, 2021
, 23(2)
: 97
-105
.
DOI: 10.12152/j.issn.1672-2868.2021.02.014