Annick Mito Horiuchi is a French
historian of mathematics
The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments ...
and
historian of science
The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural, social, and formal.
Science's earliest roots can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Mesopo ...
. She is a professor at
Paris Diderot University
Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (french: Université Paris Diderot), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 197 ...
, where she is associated with the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l'Asie orientale (CRCAO).
Horiuchi completed a doctorate in 1990; her dissertation, ''Etude de seki takakazu (?-1708) et takebe katahiro (1664-1739), deux mathematiciens de l'epoque d'edo'', was directed by Paul Akamatsu.
She was an invited speaker at the 1990
International Congress of Mathematicians.
Books
Horiuchi's books include:
*''Les mathématiques japonaises à l’époque d’Edo (1600-1868) — une étude des travaux de Seki Takakazu (?-1708) et de Takebe Katahiro (1664-1739)'', Mathesis 1994, translated into English as ''Japanese Mathematics in the Edo Period (1600–1868): A study of the works of Seki Takakazu (?–1708) and Takebe Katahiro (1664–1739)'', Birkhäuser 2010.
*''Repenser l'ordre, repenser l'héritage: Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles)'', edited with Frédéric Girard and Mieko Macé, Droz 2002.
*''Traduire, transposer, naturaliser: La formation d’une langue scientifique moderne hors des frontières de l’Europe au XIXe siècle'', edited with Pascal Crozet, l'Harmattan, 2004.
*''Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan'', edited with Matthias Hayek, Brill, 2014.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century French historians
20th-century French mathematicians
French women mathematicians
French historians of mathematics
Academic staff of Paris Diderot University
French women historians
21st-century French historians
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