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ON SOLUTIONS OF VOLTERRA-FREDHOLM INTEGRAL EQUATIONS

  • Thabet, A.A.;Alim, A.Hadi
    • Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.141-147
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    • 1989
  • The existence and uniqueness of solutions of nonlinear Volterra-Fred-holm integral equations of the more general type are investigated. The main tool employed in our analysis is the method of successive approximation based on the general idea of T.Wazewski.

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A Study on the Mathematical Communication and Problem Solving Using Internet in Pattern (인터넷을 활용한 패턴 학습에서의 수학적 의사소통 및 문제해결에 관한 연구)

  • 류성림;박신정
    • School Mathematics
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.459-476
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    • 2003
  • Internet was introduced to this study for making mathematics class the surroundings where students can solve the mathematics problems and communicate mathematically in a free way without restriction of time and place. With the intention of investigating mathematical communication and problem solving in mathematics education using internet, the objects of this study were determined as follows: First, how does a student express mathematical idea in problem solving using internet\ulcorner Second, is there any difference in the degree of participation of mathematical communication according to schoolwork accomplishment and characteristics of the student\ulcorner Third, what's the effect of class using internet on problem solving of mathematics class\ulcorner A case study was executed for the solution and the subjects were all students(44 persons) of a class in the fourth grade of elementary school in D city got into web-site of internet and had class with it and 8 students out of them were deeply analyzed. Their results were shown on internet, and eight of them had interview for deep research after survey with questionnaires for all of the students after class. The results and the conclusions of this study were as follows: First, it showed that there was various types(simple statement, fact enumerating, logical thinking, using letters and formula, insufficiency of explanation) of the mathematical idea expression in internet according to students and study using internet seems to be helpful to the improvement of logical his own expression through other students' expression. Second, it showed that there was difference in mathematical communication participation according to the student's characteristics and it helped students of poor schoolwork be interested and confident in mathematics. Third, it showed that pattern study using internet had effect on forming a habit of reason and verification in problem solving in mathematics class. Accordingly, pattern study using internet seems to have a positive effect on increasing mathematical interests and solving problems in mathematics class.

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An Analysis of Application of Mathematical History into Elementary Mathematics Education (초등수학 교육과정에서 수학사 관련 내용 분석 및 그 적용)

  • Kim Min Kyeong
    • Journal for History of Mathematics
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.43-54
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    • 2005
  • The aims of the study were to analyze the contents of elementary mathematics curriculum in order to help students to have ideas about the history of mathematics and to apply the ideas to develop their knowledge of mathematicians or mathematical history into the lesson ideas for preservice elementary teachers and elementary students. As a result, many ideas of mathematical connection into the history of mathematics are reviewed, and posters about Pythagoras and Pascal are designed to help students to reinvent the idea of triangular numbers and square numbers.

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The Role of Intuition and Logic in Creative Problem Solving Process (창의적인 문제해결과정에서의 직관과 논리의 역할)

  • 이대현
    • The Mathematical Education
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.159-164
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this paper is to find role of in and logic in creative problem solving process. Intuition and logic have played an important role in creative problem solving process. Nevertheless, Intuition has been treated less importantly than logic. Therefore, I intend to review the role of intuition, and then the relationship of intuition and logic, and the role of intuition and logic in creative problem solving process. Although intuition gives an important clue in problem solving process, it may sometimes cause an error. This fact gives an idea that intuition and logic have to be harmoniously cultivated. In fact, Intuition and logic have been playing a complementary role in creative problem solving process. A creative learner is regarded as a mathematician of his age. It must be through intuition and logic that he/she solves the problem creatively, just as a mathematician invents the new mathematical fact through unconscious and conscious process. In this respective, teachers also should make every effort to cultivate intuition and logic themselves.

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Mathematical Programming Approach for the Multiple Forest Land Use -Comparison between STEM and Constraint Method- (다목적(多目的) 산지이용(山地利用)을 위한 수리계획법(數理計劃法)의 비교(比較))

  • Yoo, Byoung Il
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.76 no.4
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    • pp.361-369
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    • 1987
  • The idea of multiple-use of forest land is tile one field of economics to improve the efficiency of forest land, and is the famous management technique widely used in the developed forestry country. This paper introduces the STEM and the constraint method, which is one kind of mathematical programming techniques used for multiple forest Land use, and discusses the differences between these two methods by using the hypothetical data.

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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN DIFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS

  • Flaherty, F.J.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.31-37
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    • 1987
  • I want to focus on developments in the areas of general relativity and gauge theory. The topics to be considered are the singularity theorms of Hawking and Penrose, the positivity of mass, instantons on the four-dimensional sphere, and the string picture of quantum gravity. I should mention that I will not have time do discuss either classical mechanics or symplectic structures. This is especially unfortunate, because one of the roots of differential geometry is planted firmly in mechanics, Cf. [GS]. The French geometer Elie Cartan first formulated his invariant approach to geometry in a series of papers on affine connections and general relativity, Cf. [C]. Cartan was trying to recast the Newtonian theory of gravity in the same framework as Einstein's theory. From the historical perspective it is significant that Cartan found relativity a convenient framework for his ideas. As about the same time Hermann Weyl in troduced the idea of gauge theory into geometry for purposes much different than those for which it would ultimately prove successful, Cf. [W]. Weyl wanted to unify gravity with electromagnetism and though that a conformal structure would fulfill thel task but Einstein rebutted this approach.

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Teaching the Solutions of Equation in view of Symmetry (대칭성을 고려한 방정식의 해법 지도)

  • Kim, Ji Hong;Kim, Boo Yoon;Chung, Young Woo
    • Communications of Mathematical Education
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.699-722
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    • 2015
  • Based on Lagrange's general theory of algebraic equations, by applying the solution of the equation using the relationship between roots and coefficients to the high school 1st grade class, the purpose of this study is to recognize the significance of symmetry associated with the solution of the equation. Symmetry is the core idea of Lagrange's general theory of algebraic equations, and the relationship between roots and coefficients is an important means in the solution. Through the lesson, students recognized the significance of learning about the relationship between roots and coefficients, and understanded the idea of symmetry and were interested in new solutions. These studies gives not only the local experience of solutions of the equations dealing in school mathematics, but the systematics experience of general theory of algebraic equations by the didactical organization, and should be understood the connections between knowledges related to the solutions of the equation in a viewpoint of the mathematical history.

Analysis of various proofs of Pythagorean theorem (피타고라스 정리의 다양한 증명 방법과 수학교육학적 아이디어 분석)

  • Kim, Young-Rock;Noh, Hee-Sung;Son, Eun-Hae
    • Communications of Mathematical Education
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.887-921
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    • 2009
  • Pythagorean theorem is one of mathematical contents which is widely used during human culture have developed. There are many historial records related to Pythagorean theorem made by Babylonian, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian. The theorem has the important meaning for mathematics education in secondary school education. Along with the importance of the proof itself, diverse proof methods and ideas included in their methods are also important since the methods improve students' ability to think mathematics. Hence, in this paper, we classify and analyze 390 proof methods published in the book "All that Pythagorean theorem" and other materials. Based on the results we derive educational meaning in mathematics with respect to main idea of the proof, the preliminaries of the study, and study skills used for proof.

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The Head of Diffy (디피의 머리)

  • Kim, Hong-Chan
    • The Mathematical Education
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    • v.45 no.4 s.115
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    • pp.481-491
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    • 2006
  • Diffy is a simple mathematical puzzle that provides elementary-school students with subtraction practice. The idea appears to have originated in the late nineteenth century with E. Ducci of Itali. Thirty years ago Professor J. Copley of the University of Houston introduced the diffy game to teachers in elementary schools and it widely spreaded out. During the diffy activity we naturally guess many interesting conjectures. First, does diffy always end? Second, does the head of diffy always exist? Third, for an arbitrary given natural number n, is there any possible method to find the diffy with the given length n? In this study I give the necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the head of diffy. Using this condition I classify all possible heads of diffy and provide an algorithm to find the diffy with any given length n. With this algorithm I find four natural numbers with diffy length 200. To ensure my numbers are correct, I make a diffy program for Mathematica and check they are correct. I suggest the diffy game is good for enlarging the mathematical thinking to all graded students, especially gifted and talented students, It will produce rational consideration and synthetic judgement.

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