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Jo Tae-gu's Juseo Gwan-gyeon and Jihe Yuanben (조태구(趙泰耉)의 주서관견(籌書管見)과 기하원본(幾何原本))

  • Hong, Sung Sa;Hong, Young Hee;Kim, Chang Il
    • Journal for History of Mathematics
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.55-72
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    • 2018

  • Matteo Ricci and Xu Gwangqi translated the first six Books of Euclid's Elements and published it with the title Jihe Yuanben, or Giha Wonbon in Korean in 1607. It was brought into Joseon as a part of Tianxue Chuhan in the late 17th century. Recognizing that Jihe Yuanben deals with universal statements under deductive reasoning, Jo Tae-gu completed his Juseo Gwan-gyeon to associate the traditional mathematics and the deductive inferences in Jihe Yuanben. Since Jo served as a minister of Hojo and head of Gwansang-gam, Jo had a comprehensive understanding of Song-Yuan mathematics, and hence he could successfully achieve his objective, although it is the first treatise of Jihe Yuanben in Joseon. We also show that he extended the results of Jihe Yuanben with his algebraic and geometric reasoning.

  • https://doi.org/10.14477/jhm.2018.31.2.055 인용 PDF