Annick Horiuchi
Annick Mito Horiuchi is a French historian of mathematics and historian of science. She is a professor at Paris Diderot University, where she is associated with the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l'Asie orientale.
Horiuchi completed a doctorate in 1990; her dissertation, "Etude de Seki Takakazu et Takebe Katahiro, deux mathématiciens de l'époque d'edo" and Takebe Katahiro, 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 — une étude des travaux de Seki Takakazu et de Takebe Katahiro , Mathesis 1994, translated into English as Japanese Mathematics in the Edo Period : A study of the works of Seki Takakazu and Takebe Katahiro , Birkhäuser 2010.
- Repenser l'ordre, repenser l'héritage: Paysage intellectuel du Japon , 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.