西方学者对中国数学的怀疑和偏见

Suspicion and Prejudice Against Chinese Mathematics by Western Scholars

自19世纪下半叶开始,一些西方学者对中国古代数学成就持怀疑和否定的态度。本文对此作了考察并分析了其中的原因,试图说明:要让中国数学史为更多的西方学者所了解,尚需我国科学史工作者做大量的研究。

Since the second half of the 19th century, Chinese achievements in mathematics have been suspected and negated by western scholars, of which this paper makes a study and analyses the reason. The author tries to show that Chinese historians of science should do much more in studying, translating and promulgating traditional Chinese mathematics in order to make it known to more Western scholars.