Andrea Bréard Author

Andrea Bréard is professor of the history of science at the Université Paris-Sud (France). Trained as a mathematician (TU München) and sinologist (LMU München & Fudan University), she obtained PhDs from the TU Berlin and the Université Paris 7. She has taught in mathematics, history of science, and sinology at the technical universities of Munich and Lille, the École Polytechnique, and the universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt. She has also held fellowships from the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and the International Research Consortium in the Humanities (Erlangen), and is an associated member of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” (University of Heidelberg). Her main research fields are the history of mathematics, modern China, and combinatorial practices in games and divination in early to pre-modern China.