Charlotte Victorine Pollet

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Email:charlotte.pollet7@gmail.com
  • History of Sciences: History of Mathematics (algebra, combinatorics, geometry)
  •  Comparative History and Philosophy
  • Ancient and Medieval Mathematics in Chinese and Sanskrit. Ethno-Mathematics. STS.
  • Philosophical practices and philosophy for children 
Experience

2020-present   National Contact Point. Social Sciences & Humanity

2018-present   National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Associate professor.

2013-2018       National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Assistant professor.

2012-2013       National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Lecturer, Post-doctoral fellow.

2001-2007       International Institute Le Rosey, Humanities dpt. (Switzerland). International Baccalaureate Organization 
                      (IBO) and French Baccalaureate teacher, examiner and coordinator.

2000-2002      EDHEC, school of Management, Culture and Society Centre, France. Lecturer and research assistant. 

1997-2001       Engineering Schools (ICAM, HEI, ISTN) France, Lecturer. 


Education

University Paris7-Diderot, National Taiwan Normal University Doctor degree. Philosophy and history of science
Ph.D. Mathematic education -option abstract algebra (mathematics dpt. NTNU)

University of Lille III-Charles de Gaulle (France).
M.A. 2 Epistemology, History of Sciences and Technologies. Distinction. 1999.
M.A. 1 Philosophy. Distinction. 1997.
B.A Philosophy. 1996

ALLIANCE FRANCAISE de PARIS
Certificat d’aptitude à l’enseignement (Certificate in Active Pedagogy).  2005.

IBO Accreditation to teach philosophy, Geneva.
Institute of Advancement of Philosophy for Children training (IAPC).  2002-2004 


Awards
 

Knight's title in the Order of the Academic Palms (French ministry of education) 8th Jan. 2020.
Excellence Teaching Award. National Chiao-Tung University.  2018 and 2021
Taiwan Honor Permanent Residence (Plum Blossom Card).  2017
Trophée des français de l’étranger French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and CNED.  2016
Taiwan National Science Council Special Talent Incentive  2013
Invited researcher, The Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing.  2010
Research Grant, Conseil Régional d’ile de France   2009-2012
Taiwan Ministry of Education research grant    2007-2011
Invited researcher, Osaka Prefectural University   2009


Publications

  1. C. Pollet. “Didactic”. Handbook of Anthropocene. Ed. N. Wallenhorst. C. Wulf. Springer-Nature. (accepted)
  2. Pastorini. C; Pollet. C; Chao. F. 兒童哲學工作坊: 35堂給小孩的哲學課.  adaptation in Chinese of “une année d’ateliers philo-art” (Nathan. Paris). 聯經出版Linking Publishing Co. (Taipei). April 2021.
  3. Pollet. C. Comparison of histories, history of comparison. The case of Indian and Chinese Indeterminate Analysis. 《臺灣東亞文明研究學刊》・Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies.  Vol. 18, No. 1 (June 2021).
  4. Pollet. C. “The Procedure of Section of Pieces of Areas in Li Ye and Yang Hui’s Works: A Genealogy of Quadratic Equations in China”. In: Science in Context (SSCI). Cambridge University Press. (2020), 33, 37-63
  5. Pollet. C. The Empty and the Full: Li Ye and the way of mathematics. World Scientific (Singapore). 03.2020.
  6. Pollet. C. 希臘真的是數學的誕生地? (Is Greece really the birthplace of mathematics? In Chinese). Math Media 數學傳播, Academia Sinica (Taipei) 44卷3期, pp. 17-30. Sept. 2020
  7. Pollet. C. Où sont vraiment nées les mathématiques? (Where were mathematics really born ? article in French) Philosophie Magazine (Paris). Jan. 2020.
  8. Pollet. C. Guan-Gong dit oui (Guan-Gong said yes. French Novel) L’Asiathèque (Paris), coll. Liminaire. Feb. 2019.
  9. Pollet. C. “Reading Algorithms in Sanskrit: How to Relate Rule of Three, Choice of Unknown and Linear Equation?” In: Computations and Computing Devices in Mathematics Education before the Advent of Electronic Calculators. “Mathematics in Digital Era”, Springer Publishers, A. Volkov and V. Freiman (Eds.), 08. 2018.
  10. Pollet. C. “Interpreting Algorithms written in Chinese from the Point of View of Comparative History” In: Computations and Computing Devices in Mathematics Education before the Advent of Electronic Calculators. “Mathematics in Digital Era”, Springer Publishers, A. Volkov and V. Freiman (Eds.), 08. 2018.
  11. Pollet. C; Ying J-M. One quadratic equation, different understandings: the 13th century interpretation by Li Ye and later commentators in the 18th and 19th centuries” Journal for History of Mathematics. Korean Society for History of Mathematics. Vol. 30 No.3 (June 2017), 137-162.
  12. Pollet C. The influence of Qing dynasty editorial work on the modern interpretation of mathematical sources: the case of Li Rui’s edition of Li Ye's mathematical treatises. In: Science in Context (SSCI). 27(3), 385-422 (2014). Cambridge University Press 2014.
Projects
  • 臺歐盟多邊科研暨創新合作推動計畫--子計畫四:人文領域-Taiwan-EU Multilateral Scientific Research and Innovation Cooperation Promotion Project-Subproject 4: Humanities MOST 109-2927-I-009 -001 (2020/06/01 - 2023/05/31)
  • From historiography of Chinese and Indian Mathematical Cultures to Logical Thinking in Mathematics Education.  MOST 108-2511-H-009-007-MY2 (08/2019-07/2021)
  • Developing Philosophical practices in Taiwan: Teaching abstraction and critical thinking with active pedagogy. MOE PED1080325 (08/2018-07/2019).
  • A Comparative Investigation of Features of Chinese and Indian Mathematical Cultures II: from point of view of cognitive history and philosophy of sciences. MOST 107-2511-H-009 -001 – (09/2018-08/2019)
  •  A Comparative Investigation of Features of Chinese and Indian Mathematical Cultures  MOST 104-2511-S-009 -003 -MY2 (09/2015-08/2018).
  • An Investigation of Features of Chinese Mathematical Culture  NSC 103-2511-S-009-002-MY2 (2014-01-01 - 2015-07-31)
International Conferences
  1. “The context and the proof: the current debate in history of ancient mathematics”. In symposium: A debate of the history of mathematics: the West and the East. National Chiao-Tung University. Dpt. Humanities and Social Sciences. 2021.12. 02
  2. “A short story on Comparison of Indian and Chinese mathematical sources”. In symposium: Mathematics in East, Southeast and South Asia: Issues of comparison and transmission. Organized by Ying Jiaming. 15th International Conference of the History of Sciences in East-Asia (ICHSEA 2019). Chonbuk National University, Jeonju. Korea. 19-23 August 2019.
  3. “Comparison of histories, history of comparison: Cases from India and China” in symposium “Comparisons in 19th and early 20th century’s history of mathematics: cases about Korea, Viet Nam, Japan, India and China”. Organized by C. Pollet. International Institute for Asian Study (Leiden. Netherland). Seoul National University. Korea, 01-02 June 2018
  4. “Understanding algorithms written in Sanskrit and Chinese: structure and cognitions”, 10th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Chiang-Mai (Thailand). July 2017
  5.  “how comparisons are built between China and India?”. 2017 Symposium on the History of East Asian Mathematics. Dpt. Mathematics. University of Taipei. 23rd Feb. 2017
  6.  “The Genealogy of Diagrams and Quadratic Equation”. In: Reasoning and Representation with Diagrams. History and Philosophy of Science and Technology in East and West. 24th-25th November 2016. National Tsing Hua University. Taiwan.
  7.  “Different, or not different, that is not the question – New reflexions on the commentaries about tianyuanshu and jiegenfang by Li Rui (1765-1814) and Nam Pyŏng-Gil (1820-1869)”, Bumwoo Conference on the History of Asian Mathematics. Seoul: Korea University. 2016.
  8. “The formation, transmission and reception of mathematical knowledge in East Asia since the 11th century”. 14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia.  6th-10th July 2015. Paris, France.  Symposium co-organized with Ying Jia-Ming (Taipei Medical University)
  9. “Analogy, order of problems and generality in China Song dynasty mathematics: The example of Li Ye’s mathematical treatises”. The 2nd International History, philosophy and Science Teaching Asian Regional Conference. National Taiwan Normal University, 4th-6th Dec, 2014.
  10.  “Transmission, Interpretation and Editorial Choices: the Case of a Chinese Mathematical Procedure. in the session 54 III "conceptual issues in mathematics". 6th international conference of the European society for the history of science, Lisbon, Portugal. 4th-6th Sept, 2014. 
  11. “One quadratic equation, several understanding: The readings of equation by Li Ye (13th C.) and later commentators of the 18th and 19th centuries”. In: Transmission of Scientific Knowledge: Continuity and Change.  National Tsing Hua University, College of Humanity and Social Sciences. 5th June 2014.
  12. “Chinese mathematics of the first millennium AD as reconstructed on the basis of medieval sources”. in Symposium “Mathematical Knowledge at Work in Ancient China”, HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS IUC, organized by Joseph W Dauben and Guo Shuchun, chaired by Xu Yibao.  24th international congress of history of sciences, technology and medicine, July 2013. Manchester, England.
  13.  “Construction and transmission of Chinese mathematical diagrams from the Sung to the Qing dynasty”. XXIII International congress of history of science and Technology, Budapest, Hungary, July 2009
Philosophy Events
  1. The philosophy week. Teacher training in philosophy for children and French didactic of philosophy.
Nov. 2018: Philosophy made in France. With Alexandre Lacroix (philosophie magazine), Chiara Pastorini (les petites lumieres), Nicolas Tenaillon (writer)
Nov 2019: philosophy, sciences and technology. With Vincent Bontems (CEA), Claude Kirchner (INRIA), Alexandre Abensour (writer)
Nov. 2021: Philosophy in time of crise. With Marie Julie Maitre (TKU), Jean Yves Herteubise (FJU) and charlotte Pollet (NYCU)
  1. Implementation of philosophy for children in public schools: Rui Tarn school (Yangmei, Taoyuan County), Xinzhu experimental school (Xinzhu city), Anxing school (Zhubei, Xinzhu county).
  2. Philosophy for children. Grade 1 students. Anxing school (Zhubei). Sept-Jan 2017.
  3. Philosophy for children. Summer camp. With Zhu Shiyin. 3-7 July 2017.
  4. Popular Publications in Philosophy medium (philomedium.com).
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