• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제26권5_6호
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• pp.355-370
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• 2013

Thomas Harriot has been introduced in middle school textbooks as a great mathematician who created the sign of inequality. This study is about Harriot's symbolism and the theory of equation. Harriot made symbols of mathematical concepts and operations and used the algebraic visual representation which were combinations of symbols. He also stated solving equations in numbers, canonical, and by reduction. His epoch-making inventions of algebraic equation using notation of operation and letters are similar to recent mathematical representation. This study which reveals Harriot's contribution to general and structural approach of mathematical solution shows many developments of algebra in 16th and 17th centuries from Viete to Harriot and from Harriot to Descartes.

• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.15-27
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• 2012

16세기 후반과 17세기 전반에 활동했던 영국의 과학자이자 수학자인 Thomas Harriot은 대수기호를 독창적으로 만들어 사용하였고 일부는 오늘날에도 사용하고 있다. 또한 방정식에서 음수근 뿐만 아니라 복소수근도 받아들였는데 그의 이러한 관점은 당시로는 혁신적이었으며 나아가 방정식의 형태의 일반화에도 진일보한 모습을 보여주었다. 사후 유작 외에는 생전에 수학 저서가 한 권도 없는 탓에 Harriot 개인이나 그가 이루어 놓은 수학이 수학적 성취에 비하여 수학사나 수학교육에서 그에 대하여 소홀히 다루어진 감이 있다. 이 논문에서는 동시대 유명한 수학자였던 비에타와 데카르트의 대수기호와 방정식론을 비교함으로써 Harriot이 이루어놓은 수학을 알리고자 한다.

• 영미문화
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.111-139
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• 2016

Plato's philosophical importance in western thinking history cannot be understated. Especially his dichotomy system became common to the European traditions of philosophical and scientific discourses by assigning principal value to the presence that is opposed to the absence. Since the ancient Greeks, the concept of presence has been expressed itself in number of ways such as God, Truth, Logos, and center. Derrida called this European thinking "the metaphysics of presence." In order to analyze logocentrism also called the metaphysics of presence in No Telephone to Heaven, I used the term, paralogy that Aristotle did not accept as rules of argumentation but that Lyotard revived it positively as the principle of reason. Lyotard's incredulity towards rationalist theory of modernism is that knowledge can never be certain. Without any ultimate validity, certainty is impossible. Nevertheless, as Fanon said, the colonial world is dominated with a traditional Manichaean world. As a result what remains to the colonized to establish their identities is that of an armed struggle towards the colonizer even though they know it results in the vicious circle of hatred endlessly. Cliff attempted to show this message in her text through the tragic heroine, Clare Savage. Cliff's another critique of modernism's rationalism is shown through the ambiguous sexuality of Harry/Harriot. In this novel, gender plays also a central role by questioning the traditional binary system of sexuality. In this paper, I deconstructed this traditional gender system in terms of Bulter's concept of performitivity. This study will give the text another layer of deconstructive interpretation echoing with the proverb, one tree cannot make a forest.