Annick Horiuchi facts for kids
Annick Mito Horiuchi is a French expert who studies the history of math and the history of science. She is a professor at Paris Diderot University in France. She also works with a research center called the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l'Asie orientale (CRCAO).
Annick Horiuchi earned her doctorate degree in 1990. This is a very high university degree. Her big research paper, called a dissertation, was about two important Japanese mathematicians from the Edo Period. Their names were Seki Takakazu and Takebe Katahiro. The Edo Period was a time in Japanese history from 1600 to 1868.
In 1990, she was invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians. This is a big meeting where mathematicians from all over the world share their ideas.
Her Books
Annick Horiuchi has written and helped edit several books. These books share her research and knowledge with others.
- Japanese Mathematics in the Edo Period (1600–1868): A study of the works of Seki Takakazu (?–1708) and Takebe Katahiro (1664–1739) (2010). This book is about the history of math in Japan during the Edo Period. It looks closely at the work of the two mathematicians she studied for her doctorate.
- Repenser l'ordre, repenser l'héritage: Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles) (2002). This book, which she edited with others, explores the world of ideas in Japan from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
- Traduire, transposer, naturaliser: La formation d’une langue scientifique moderne hors des frontières de l’Europe au XIXe siècle (2004). This book, also edited with a colleague, discusses how modern scientific language developed outside of Europe in the 19th century.
- Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan (2014). In this book, she and another editor look at how people learned in early modern Japan.
