Horiuchi completed a doctorate in 1990; her dissertation, "Etude de Seki Takakazu (?-1708) et Takebe Katahiro (1664-1739), deux mathématiciens de l'époque d'edo" (litt. A study of Seki Takakazu (?-1708) and Takebe Katahiro (1664-1739), two mathematicians of the Edo Period), was directed by Paul Akamatsu.[2]
She was an invited speaker at the 1990 International Congress of Mathematicians.[3]
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.[4]
Repenser l'ordre, repenser l'héritage: Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles), edited with Frédéric Girard and Mieko Macé, Droz 2002.[5]
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.[6]
Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan, edited with Matthias Hayek, Brill, 2014.[7]