摘要
自李俨、钱宝琮始,国内外学者开始用现代数学方法整理古代数学遗产,并建立了中国数学史学科的研究范式。20世纪80年代起,吴文俊倡导对于中国古代数学的“古证复原”,提出了数学史研究“古为今用”的目标。今天的中国数学史研究正向广度与深度两方面拓展。从数学史研究的方法论来看,存在三个互相关联并需要反思的理论议题。第一,辉格解释问题,其实质在于探究现代数学对古代数学的解释限度;第二,史料问题,其目的在于探讨古代数学实作传统的多样性;第三,古为今用问题,它与前两个议题及数学史的学科定位有关。数学史的研究实践正通过独有的方式探讨上述议题,因此长期存在于研究中的内史与外史之争论是没有必要的。
Since Li Yan and Qian Baocong,Chinese and international scholars have started to use modern mathematics to discover ancient mathematical heritage and have therefore established the research paradigm for the discipline of the history of Chinese mathematics.Since the 1980s,Wu Wenjun has advocated“the reconstruction of ancient proofs”for ancient Chinese mathematics and proposed the research aim for the studies in the history of Chinese mathematics as“making the past serve the present”.Nowadays,research in the history of Chinese mathematics is carried out towards the extension in areas and depth.From the perspective of methodology,there are three correlated theatrical issues that need to be reflected on.The first one is the Whig interpretation problem whose nature is to study the limitation of modern interpretation of ancient mathematics.The second one is the sources problem whose aim is to study the diversity of mathematics in the ancient world.The last one is the problem of making the past serve the present,which is closely related to the two previous issues and to the disciplinary position of the history of mathematics.The research carried out in history of mathematics is discussing these issues in its own way;hence the long-term dispute on the internal history and the external history in the studies of the history of mathematics is not necessary.
作者
朱一文
ZHU Yiwen(Department of Philosophy&Institute of Logic and Cognition,Sun Yat-sen University,Zhongshan,Guangdong,528400)
出处
《自然辩证法通讯》
CSSCI
北大核心
2020年第3期77-84,共8页
Journal of Dialectics of Nature
基金
国家社科基金青年项目“儒家经典注疏中天算文献的整理与研究”(项目编号:16CZS012)的阶段性成果。
关键词
中国数学史
方法论
辉格解释
史料
古为今用
History of Chinese mathematics
Methodology
Whig interpretation
Sources
Making the past serve the present
