Christopher Cullen
English sinologist
About Christopher Cullen
Born 1946. Christopher Cullen is a British mathematician, historian of mathematics, university teacher and sinologist.
Christopher Cullen is an English sinologist born in 1946. He has an MA from University of Oxford in engineering and a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies in classical Chinese. He is Director Emeritus of the Needham Research Institute and General Editor of the Science and Civilisation in China series, succeeding Joseph Needham. His own area of research is the Han Dynasty and he translated the Book on Numbers and Computation into English.
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--, and Vivienne Lo, eds., Medieval Chinese Medicine: The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts. Taylor & Francis, Needham Research Institute Series, 2004. .
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English sinologist
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Christopher Cullen was born in 1946 in Dundee.
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Christopher Cullen is a mathematician, historian of mathematics, university teacher and sinologist.
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Christopher Cullen is British.
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