• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.33-53
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• 2020

Euclid's Elements has been considered as the stereotype of logical and deductive approach to mathematics in the history of mathematics. Nonetheless, it has been criticized by its dryness and difficulties for learning. It is worthwhile to noticing mathematicians' struggle for providing some alternatives to Euclid's Elements. One of these alternatives was written by a French scientist, Pardies who called it 'Elemens de Geometrie ou par une methode courte & aisee l'on peut apprendre ce qu'il faut scavoir d'Euclide, d'Archimede, d'Apllonius & les plus belles inventions des anciens & des nouveaux Geometres.' A precedent research presented its historical meaning in traditional mathematics of China and Joseon as well as its didactical meaning in mathematics education with the overview of this book. However, it has a limitation that there isn't elaborate comparison between Euclid's and Pardies'in the aspects of contents as well as the approaching method. This evokes the curiosity enough to encourage this research. So, this research aims to compare Pardies' Elements and Euclid's Elements. Which propositions Pardies selected from Euclid's Elements? How were they restructured in Pardies' Elements? Responding these questions, the researcher confirmed his easy method of learning geometry intended by Pardies.

• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.1-20
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• 2021

Logic and intuition are considered as the opposite extremes of teaching geometry, and any teaching method of geometry is to be placed between these extremes. The purpose of this study is to identify the characteristics of logical and intuitive approaches for teaching geometry and to derive didactical implications by taking Euclid's Elements and Clairaut's Elements respectively representing the extremes. To this end, comparing the composition and contents of each book, we analyze which propositions Clairaut chose from Euclid's Elements, how their approaches differ in definitions, proofs, and geometrical constructions, and what unique approaches Clairaut took. The results reveal that Clairaut mainly chose propositions from Euclid's books 1, 3, 6, 11, and 12 to provide the contexts that show why such ideas were needed, rather than the sudden appearance of abstract and formal propositions, and omitted or modified the process of justification according to learners' levels. These propose a variety of intuitive strategies in line with trends of teaching geometry towards emphasis on conceptual understanding and different levels of justification. Specifically, such as the general principle of similarity and the infinite geometric approach shown in Clairaut's Elements, we could confirm that intuition-based geometry does not necessarily aim for tasks with low cognitive demand, but must be taught in a way that learners can understand.

• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.23-32
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• 2004

본 고에서는 유클리드의 원론에 나타난 대수적 개념들을 개괄하고, 현대적인 기호로 그 의미를 분석하였다. 유클리드의 원론에는 이차방정식, 곱셈공식, 비례식, 정수론, 무리수 등의 대수적 개념이 포함되어 있으나, 그 표현과 추론은 완전히 기하학적인 형태로 이루어져 있다 이러한 내용을 분석하는 것은 대수학의 발생적 본질을 찾아 최초에 수학이 만들어지는 상황을 학생들에게 경험하게 함으로써 수학화를 구현하려는 교육적인 문제의식에도 일종의 시사를 제공하게 될 것이다.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.483-500
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• 2016

Ancient Greek mathematician Euclid left three books about mathematics. It's 'The elements', 'The data', 'On divisions of figure'. This study is based on the analysis of Euclid's 'On divisions of figure'. 'On divisions of figure' is a book about the construction of the shape. Because, there are thirty six proposition in 'On divisions of figure', among them 30 proposition are for the construction. In this study, based on the 'On divisions of figure' we explore the direction for construction education. The results were as follows. First, the proposition of 'On divisions of figure' shall include the following information. It is a 'proposition presented', 'heuristic approach to the construction process', 'specifically drawn presenting', 'proof process'. Therefore, the content of textbooks needs a qualitative improvement in this way. Second, a conceptual basis of 'On divisions of figure' is 'The elements'. 'The elements' includes the construction propositions 25%. However, the geometric constructions contents in middle school area is only 3%. Therefore, it is necessary to expand the learning of construction in the our country mathematics curriculum.

• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.133-144
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• 2000

We study on a Mohr-Mascheroni theorem, which is the followings: If a construction problem is solved by euclidean tools(compass and ruler), then it can be solved using only compass. Though it is known that Mohr-Mascheroni theorem was proved by Mascheroni, but we have not any materials concerned with Mascheroni's work. In order to investigate Mohr-Mascheroni theorem, we analyze Euclid's Elements, and we draw some construction problems, which are essential for proving Mohr-Mascheroni theorem. We solve these problems using only compass. Though we don't solve all construction problems of Euclid's Elements, we can regard that Mohr-Mascheroni theorem is proved.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈C:초등수학교육
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.117-130
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• 2017

유클리드 원론은 그 내용과 방법론의 중요성으로 인해 현재까지도 수학과 수학교육에서 중요한 교재로 인식되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 원론이 초등학교 수학교과서의 이해에 구체적으로 어떻게 관련되는지를 논의하고 교사교육에의 가치를 밝히고자 하였다. 먼저, 초등학교 교과서의 구체적인 몇 가지 내용들을 원론의 관점에서 고찰할 때 어떤 교육적 시사점을 얻을 수 있는지 검토함으로써 초등학교 교육내용의 이해에 있어서 원론의 중요성을 예증하였다. 또한, 교사와 예비교사들이 체계로서의 수학을 경험할 수 있는 장으로서 원론의 가치를 논의하였다.

• 대한수학교육학회지:수학교육학연구
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.173-192
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• 2013

2009 개정 교육과정의 중학교 기하영역에서 주목할 만한 변화 중 하나는 엄밀한 형식적인 증명대신 도형의 성질을 이해하고 설명하는 활동으로의 대치이다. 이는 수학교육의 꾸준한 논쟁거리였던 증명 교육과 관련한 학습자의 이해 수준 및 어려움을 고려한 결과이다. 본 연구는 학생들이 기하 증명시 경험하는 어려움 중 도형을 지칭하는 문자 및 형식적 기호를 사용한 증명 작성, 기호로 길게 제시된 증명 이해에서 비롯되는 형식적 특성의 것에 주목한다. 증명의 아이디어와는 별개로 문자 및 기호 사용에서 비롯되는 어려움을 극복하고자 문자 대신 채색된 그림이라는 시각적 표현을 이용함으로써 독자의 학습을 쉽게 하려고 했던 Byrne의 'Euclid 원론'에 사용된 증명 방법을 이용하여 지도해봄으로써 오늘날 기하 수업에서의 적용가능성을 검토하고자 하는 것이다. 이를 위해 중학교 2학년 한 학급을 대상으로 기하 단원의 세 개 정리에 대한 증명을 원문, 역동적 표현, 교사의 판서 등 세 개의 매체를 활용한 Byrne의 방법으로 지도하고, 학생들의 활동결과 및 학생과 교사의 설문 결과를 분석함으로써 새로운 대안의 장단점을 토대로 적용 가능성을 논의한다.

• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.103-114
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• 2020

In 1607, Matteo Ricci and Xu Guangqi translated Euclid's 《Elements》 and published 《Jihe yuanben, 幾何原本》. Though 《Elements》 consists of 13 volumes (or 15 volumes according to its editions), they translated only the first 6 volumes on the plane geometry. Why did they do so? This paper discusses about the three questions which naturally arise: What might be the motive of the translation of the 《Elements》? What method did they adopt for the translation? And why did they translate the 6 volumes, especially, the first 6 volumes, not completing the whole?

• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.291-313
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• 2018

This study aims to analyze Pardies' ${\ll}$Elements of geometry${\gg}$. This book is very interesting from the perspectives of mathematical history as well as of mathematical education. Because it was used for teaching Kangxi emperor geometry in the Qing Dynasty in China instead of Euclid's which was considered as too difficult to study geometry. It is expected that this book suggests historical and educational implications because it appeared in the context of instruction of geometry in the seventeenth century of mathematical history. This study includes the analyses on the contents of Pardies' ${\ll}$Elements of geometry${\gg}$, the author's advice for geometry learning, several geometrical features, and some features from the view of elementary school mathematics, of which the latter two contain the comparisons with other authors' as well as school mathematics. Moreover, some didactical implications were induced based on the results of the study.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1988년도 전기.전자공학 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.165-167
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• 1988

In this paper, the design of decoder for R-S code using discrete finite-field Fourier transform is presented. An important ingredient of this design is a modified Euclid algorithm for computing the error-locator polynomial. The computation of inverse elements is completely avoided in this modification of Euclid algorithm. This decoder is regular and simple, and naturally suitable for VLSI implementation.