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Karine Chemla studied mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles from 1976 to 1982. In 1980, she received a scholarship from the Singer-Polignac Foundation, allowing her to spend months in China on the project "Science and Culture." She self-studied Chinese language and was admitted as a student at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing from April to October 1981. She obtained her PhD degree in mathematics in October 1982 with a thesis on a 13th-century Chinese treatise, "Sea-Mirror of Circle-Measurements." Subsequently, she joined the mathematics department of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), working at the SPHERE laboratory (CNRS & University Paris Cité). In 2024, she was awarded a Global Professorship by the British Academy for a project titled "Rethinking the History of Mathematical Symbolism," which she is developing at the School of Mathematics of the University of Edinburgh.
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