• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.79-102
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• 2009

Most who have heard of Sang-Seol Lee know him for his contribution to the Korean independence movement nearly a hundred years ago. This paper, however, will discuss Lee's other great contribution to his country; that of being "The father of modern mathematical education in Korea". Lee passed the rigorous government officer examination with the highest honor and became a teacher for the royal prince. Later he became the president of Sunkyunkwan, a national institute of higher learning since 1398, and eventually a well-known university bearing the same name. Lee was also a highly regarded Confucian scholar and well versed in foreign languages. He wanted Korea to become a modern country and felt that the areas of science and engineering were studies that needed improving in order to achieve modernization. While researching Western textbooks on the subjects he realized that Western mathematics would be especially important for Korea. With that, it became his mission to integrate Western mathematics into the Korean educational system. This paper will explain the importance of Sang-Seol Lee's contributions to mathematic education in Korea and how it helped Korea become the modern nation it is today.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.31 no.5 s.348
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• pp.25-27
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• 1998

근세에 들어오면서 과학은 산업. 정치의 전반적인 문제와 얽히고 그 영향으로 물리학. 수학이 발달하게 된 계기가 마련되었다. 수학연구는 16세기가 끝나면서 그 당시의 과학 ,기술적 요청에 따라 이탈리아 .독일 등 유럽에서 활발히 움직였다 17세기 '뉴턴의 만유인력의 법칙'등 5대 발견을 계기로 새로운 수학의 시대를 열었으며 18~19세기의 산업혁명과 근대 자본주의 형성 등 사회적 대변동이 근대수학의 새로운 체계를 이루는 산실이 되었다.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.31 no.4 s.347
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• pp.32-34
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• 1998

수학은 고대 ㆍ근대 ㆍ현대에 이어지는 문명의 발달과 함께 성장하고 탈바꿈해 왔다. 그리스 기하학은 고대수학으로 수. 양. 함수 등은 근대수학으로 그리고 현대엔 연산작용 등의 수학적 구조로 변천해 왔다. '0의 발견'으로 새로운 세계를 연 수학은 기록용이던 숫자가 계산용으로 바뀌었으며 0은 컴퓨터의 발명에 이르기까지 인류사회에 큰 영향을 미쳤다.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.71-84
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• 2006

The purpose of the study was to investigate the evolution of Korean modern mathematics in late 19th and early 20th century. This article reveals the efforts of incipient Korean mathematicians who had adopted modern mathematics from western countries and the difficulties and struggles they had to go through at that time. At the end of the article, we discussed our current status in international mathematical society.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for History of Mathematics Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.8-8
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• 2005

• The Science & Technology
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• v.31 no.6 s.349
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• pp.92-94
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• 1998

1907년 헤이그 밀사사건의 세 주인공 중의 하나인 이상설을 우리나라 최초의 근대 수학자라고 곱을 수 있다. 이상설은 1900년 일본 학자 이노우에 기요시의 수학책을 중심으로 「산술신서」라는 수학책을 편찬했다.「산술신서」는 「정선산학」과 함께 우리나라 근대 이후에 나온 가장 오래된 수학책이다.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.207-254
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• 2009

We would like to give an introduction about Korean Tertiary Mathematics and curriculum in the early 20th centuryan Ttails like, when tertiary mathematics was introduced in Korea, who adiated it, and how it appeared in curriculum for college education were presented. From the late 19th century, the royal circle of the dynasty, officers, socd. Felites, intellectu. sculum in tand many foreatn my mionaries, who entered Korea, began to establish educational ulstitutions begulnearlfrom the nt80s. Kearl GoJongtannounced thescript for general education icentur. Most of the new schoo scadiated western mathematics as tcompulsory course in their curriculumiese introduced tertiary mathematics in most of the curriculumurse end curriculum in, lfrom nt85 to 1960. Since then, tertiary mathematics was tautit at most of the new private and public schools of each level and in colleges. We have investigated the history of Korean tertiary mathematics with its curriculum from 1895 to 1960.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.1-21
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• 2010

The first Korean mathematical science journal was published by Yu, Il- Sun in 1905 and the name of this journal is "Mathematical Science magazine". This monthly journal was published for 2 years. But in the existing literature, there is no information about it. We discovered its existence and studied its contents. From the historical materials, pioneering contributions of Yu, Il-Sun to mathematics were provided. In this article, the first issue of this journal was fully analyzed. We could see his affection and enthusiasm for the journal that he started. More mathematical search efforts on finding historical math materials should be continued. More efforts should be made on finding historical math literatures. Related researches will be done. Those works will be worth to be shared in ICME-12 and ICM 2014.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for History of Mathematics Conference
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• 1998.11a
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• pp.11.2-11.2
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• 1998

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.1093-1130
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to examine obstacles to progress for 20th century Korean mathematics. In 1945, shortly after Korea was liberated from Japan, there were no Korean mathematics Ph.D. holders, less than ten bachelor degree holders, and only one person with a master's degree in mathematics. We investigate the reasons for this. Korea has to overcome such an unforgiving condition and rebuild quality education programs in higher mathematics over the last several decades. These debilitating circumstances in higher mathematics were considerable obstacles in developing a higher level of mathematical research for the mainstream of 20th century world mathematics. We study policy and curriculums of Korean school mathematics in the late 19th and early 20th century, with some educational and socio-political background.