Annick Horiuchi

Annick Mito Horiuchi is a French historian of mathematics and science who specializes in the history of science in Japan.

Horiuchi studied mathematics from 1979 at the École normal supérieure de jeunes filles in Paris with the Agrégation in 1982 and the DEA with Haïm Brezis at the University of Paris VI . In 1983 she obtained a licentiate and in 1984 a maitrise in Japanese at the University of Paris VII and from 1984 to 1987 she studied history of science and Chinese at the University of Tokyo . In 1990 she did her doctorate at the University of Paris VII on the Seki School of Japanese Mathematics ( Wasan , in particular Seki Takakazu , Takebe Katahiro ) and in 2002 she completed her habilitation. She is a professor at the University of Paris VII ( Denis Diderot , Faculty of East Asian Studies) and at the Center de recherche sur les civilizations de l'Asie orientale (CRCAO).

Fonts

• Les mathématiques japonaises à l'époque d'Edo (1600–1868) - une étude des travaux de Seki Takakazu (? –1708) et de Takebe Katahiro (1664–1739), Collection Mathesis, Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 1994
• Japanese Mathematics in the Edo Period (1600-1868): A study of the works of Seki Takakazu (? -1708) and Takebe Katahiro (1664-1739), Science Networks. Historical Studies, translation by Silke Wimmer-Zagier, Birkhäuser Basel, 2010.

Web links

• Website at the CRCAO