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Acknowledgments
I have known Evelyn Fox Keller since 1997, and since 2005 we have been working together on scientific cultures, mainly in France, where she was awarded a Chaire Blaise Pascal. This text is part of a continuing discussion and has benefited from many insights gained through exchanging thoughts with her. It is a pleasure to thank her for the magnificent scholarly exchanges and friendship that we have enjoyed during all these years.
Notes
1 Keller describes her path in the academic world in an interview with Ilana Löwy (2008). See also CitationHorning 1993 and CitationWhitton 1999.
2 In July 2016, when the European Mathematical Society awarded one of its ten prizes to Vincent Calvez for his work in mathematical biology, the abstract of his talk referred to the “the original work by Keller and Segel (J. Theor. Biol. 1971).” CitationEuropean Mathematical Society 2016: 12–13.
3 See, notably, CitationKeller 2000.
4 For this reason I have expressed my disagreement with views promoted by Marcel Granet with respect to Chinese language and thought. CitationChemla 2007.
5 In CitationChemla 2006 I describe a case of the shaping of an artificial language to which mathematical Chinese texts from the thirteenth century attest. See also the examples given in CitationChemla 2016.
6 Recycling is the word that Keller and I suggest using in our introduction to CitationChemla and Keller 2017: 11, 16, 22.
7 I will not develop what I mean by “local” here. However, let me emphasize that this does not refer to any geographic location, but rather to social groups that are (at least loosely) connected and share a given culture in relation to a given domain of inquiry.
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Karine Chemla
Karine Chemla is senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and from 2011 to 2016 she was principal investigator of the ERC Advanced Research Grant SAW (https://sawerc.hypotheses.org). Chemla published, with Guo Shuchun, Les neuf chapitres (2004). She edited The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions (2012), Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science (with J. Virbel, 2015), The Oxford Handbook of Generality in Mathematics and the Sciences (with R. Chorlay and D. Rabouin, 2016), and Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (with Evelyn Fox Keller, 2017).