• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.57-71
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• 2010

Similarity between concept and concept, principle and principle, theory and theory is known as a strong motivation to mathematical knowledge construction. Metaphor and analogy are reasoning skills based on similarity. These two reasoning skills have been introduced as useful not only for mathematicians but also for students to make meaningful conjectures, by which mathematical knowledge is constructed. However, there has been lack of researches connecting the two reasoning skills. In particular, no research focused on the interplay between the two in didactic transposition. This study investigated the process of knowledge construction by metaphor and analogy and their roles in didactic transposition. In conclusion, three kinds of models using metaphor and analogy in didactic transposition were elaborated.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.87-96
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• 2011

Hans Freudenthal made important contributions to algebraic topology and geometry. He also made significant contributions in history of mathematics and mathematics education. In the 1970s, his intervention prevented the Netherlands from the movement of "new math". He had a very important role as a founder of realistic mathematics education and became famous internationally by that. Because he raised the profile of ICMI strongly, Bass used the expression 'Freudenthal Era' for the period that Freudenthal was the president of ICMI. Now many mathematics educator agree to use the Freudenthal Era when they mention about the history of ICMI. In this paper, we present on the life of Freudenthal and his contributions for mathematics education, especially ICMI.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.41-52
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• 2010

Ancient Indian mathematical works, all composed in Sanskrit, usually consisted of a section of sturas in which a set of rules or problems were stated with great economy in verse in order to aid memorization by a student. And rules or problems of the mathematics were transmitted both orally and in manuscript form.Indian mathematicians made early contributions to the study of the decimal number system, arithmetic, equations, algebra, geometry and trigonometry. And many Indian mathematicians were appearing one after another in Ancient. This paper is a comparative study of mathematics developments in ancient India and the other ancient civilizations. We have found that the Indian mathematics is quantitative, computational and algorithmic by the principles, but the ancient Greece is axiomatic and deductive mathematics in character. Ancient India and the other ancient civilizations mathematics should be unified to give impetus to further development of mathematics education in future times.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.59-64
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• 2002

인지심리학 및 인지언어학 분야에서 시도한 어휘 표상, 특히 움직임과 관련된 동사의 인지도식에 관한 연구들을 비교해보고자 한다. 인간의 언어학적인 지식을 도식적으로 표상 하고자 하는 노력은 언어의 통사적인 외형에만 치중하는 연구에서는 언어의 의미구조를 파악하기 힘들다고 판단하고 의미적인 범주화를 중요시하게 되었다. 본 연구에서는 시각적 이미지 도식을 중점적으로 살펴보기로 한다. 이미지 도식은 공간적 위치 관계, 이동, 형상 등에 관한 지각과 결부되어 있다. 이미지로 나타낸 표상은 근본적으로 세상의 인식과 세상에 대한 행동방법을 사용하게 하는 유추적이고 은유적인 원칙에 기초하고 있다. 이러한 점에 있어서, 언술을 발화한 화자는 어느 정도 주관적인 행동의 능력과 그가 인식한 개념화에서부터 문자화시킨 표상을 구성한다. 인지 원칙에 입각한 의미 표상에 중점을 둔 도식으로는, Langacker, Lakoff, Talmy의 도식이 있다. 프랑스에서 톰 R. Thom과 같은 수학자들은 질적인 현상에 관심을 가져 형역학(morphodynamique)이론을 확립하였는데, 이 이론은 요즘의 인지 연구에 수학적 기초를 제공하였다. R. Thom, J. Petitot-Cocorda의 도식 및 구조 의미론의 창시자라고 불리는 B.Pottier의 도식이 여기에 속한다 J.-P. Descles가 제시한 인지연산문법(Grammaire Applicative et Cognitive)은 다른 인지문법과는 달리 정보 자동처리과정에서 사용할 수 있는 연산자와 피연산자의 관계에 기초한 수학적 연산작용을 발전시켰다. 동사의 의미는 의미-인지 도식으로 설명되는데, 이것은 서로 다른 연산자와 피연산자로 구성된 형식화된 표현이다. 인간의 인지 기능은 언어로 표현되며, 언어는 인간의 의사소통, 사고 행위 및 인지학습의 핵심적 기능을 담당한다. 인간의 언어정보처리 메카니즘은 매우 복잡한 과정이기 때문에 언어정보처리와 관련된 언어심리학, 인지언어학, 형식언어학, 신경해부학 및 인공지능학 등의 관련된 분야의 학제적 연구가 필요하다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.19 no.37
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• pp.233-240
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• 1996

Julia set, Fatou set와 Mandelbrot set 가 컴퓨터에 의하여 도형화된 후부터 혼돈 역학체계 (chaotic dynamical system)에 대한 연구가 모든 학계에 비상한 관심을 모으고 있으며 특히 수학자들에 의하여 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 또한 혼돈 역학체계를 기초로 하여 컴퓨터 그래픽스를 이용한 후랙탈(fractal)들의 매혹적인 시각적 표현으로 인하여 최근들어 과학자들 뿐 아니라 일반대중의 후랙탈에 대한 관심이 매우 높아지고 있다. 후랙탈이란 말은 라틴어 fractus(부서진 상태를 뜻함)에서 유래되었으며 1975년 Mandelbrot가 수학 및 자연계의 비정규적 패턴들에 대한 체계적 고찰을 담은 자신의 에세이의 표제를 주기 위해서 만들었다(〔6〕). 후랙탈을 기술하는데 있어서 가장 중요한 양은 차원(dimension)으로, 예컨데 Cantor 1/3 집합은 길이 1인 선분으로부터 시작하야 매 단계마다 모든 선분들의 가운데 1/3을 잘라내는 것을 무한히 반복함으로써 얻어지는데 이 집합의 Lebesgue measure는 0이지만 후랙탈 차원은 log2/log3 로 정수차원이 아닌 실수차원을 갖으며 또한 Cantor 1/3집합은 연속이 아니면서 점도 선도 아닌 집합인 것이다. 이 논문에서는 Box counting dimension 과 Hausdorff dimension에 대한 몇 가지 정의를 하고 정리 2.6, 정리2.7 및 정리 3.3을 증명함으로써 어떤 성질을 갖는 후랙탈의 가장 중요한 양인 후랙탈 차원에 대하여 논의 하고자 한다.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.663-676
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• 2007

In this paper we study tetrahedron's properties related with intersection of segments and planes using the principle of the lever. We analyze proof method using the principle of the lever, and describe how to prove intersection of segments and planes using the principle of the lever in tetrahedron.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.79-90
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• 2005

Before the First World War, French mathematicians were leading mathematical community in the world but after the war, there was a vacuum compared with Germany and England. So it was necessary to make everything new in France. Young mathematicians from Ecole Normale Superieur came together to form the Bourbaki group. Bourbaki advanced the view that mathematics is a science dealing with structures, and that it attains its results through a systematic application of the modern axiomatic method. French culture movements, especially structuralism and potential literature, including the Bourbakist endeavor, emerged together, each strengthening the public appeal of the others through constant interaction. In this paper, we investigate Bourbaki's role and their achievements in the twentieth century mathematics, and the decline of Bourbaki.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.527-540
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• 2007

It takes much of times and efforts for mathematical knowledge to be regarded as truth. Mathematical knowledge has been added, and modified, and even proved to be false. Mathematical knowledge consists of mathematical languages, statements, reasonings, questions, metamathematical views. These elements have been changed constantly by investigations and refutations of mathematicians, by modification of proofs considering the refutations, by introduction of new concepts, by additions of questions about new concepts, by efforts to get answers to new questions, by attempts to apply previous studies to the present, constantly. This study introduces the change of mathematical knowledge instituted by filcher, and presents examples of the change.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.1-13
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• 2012

Ki-Won Chang(1903-1966) is considered as the first mathematician who made a contribution to the study of the history of Korean mathematics. In this paper, we introduce contributions of Ki-Won Chang, his discovery of old Korean literatures on mathematics, and his academic contribution on the history of Korean mathematics. Then we analyze and compare his conclusions on old Korean mathematics with recent works of others. This work shows some interesting discovery.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.303-324
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• 2008

From mid-1890's, biometricians and Mendelians debated over Darwin's evolutionary theory. Biologist W. Weldon and Mathematician K. Pearson were leaders of the biometric school and biologist W. Bateson led Mendelian school. In this paper topics of the controversy such as causation vs. correlation, frequency distribution are considered. And in relation to the tradition of British statistics, we consider the philosophy of Karl Pearson revealed in this debate. Besides many statistical methods and concepts by Karl Pearson, the newly born mathematical statistics got a new journal Biometrika, a department in university, and a school of researchers from this controversy.