• 한국학교수학회논문집
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.59-67
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• 2000

This study has been done to help teach mathematics on the spot of education by providing the history of mathematics and illustrations concerning mathematics, which were rearranged for the level of the second grade students in highschool and intented to interest students in mathematics classes. The contents of teaching, according to each unit (Matrix, Sequence, Limit, Differentiation, Integration, Probability, Statistics) include the life of the representative mathematician, the historical background centered on episodes, questions linked with reality, questions making sensations in history and something for maxim in mathematics. If such contents are properly used, they are expected to be able to stimulate students' curiosity, and to be effective in improving students' learning ability in mathematics by causing them to show their active attitudes toward learning mathematics.

• 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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• 제32권6호
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• pp.271-279
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• 2019

Pierre-Simon de Laplace(1749-1827) is considered one of the most influential scientists in history. He was known to his contemporaries as the Newton of France, and a scientific sage valued for his magisterial syntheses of scientific works through the 18th century. Laplace was a determined mathematician, astronomer, writer, philosopher, and educator. In this paper, we take a survey of his achievements in the areas of astronomy and mathematical statistics, along with his scientific philosophy, the universal determinism.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈D:수학교육연구
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.19-31
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• 2010

Introduced in this paper is one of the most remarkable Ottoman institutions, the Ottoman Palace School-Enderun, with a focus on the life story of Matrak$\c{c}{\i}$ Nasuh, one of its most noted graduates and teachers. Matrak$\c{c}{\i}$ Nasuh's life and work as a prominent mathematician and a teacher of mathematics are investigated as a case study. It shows how young boys and girls were selected because of their academic potential, brought to Istanbul, and educated in Enderun to serve the Empire. This research articulates the mathematics education on the first institutionalized gifted education system of the world and discusses its implications for today.

• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.73-83
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• 2015

In this paper, we give answers to some interesting questions about a Confucian scholar and mathematician in the late Joseon Dynasty, CHOI Seok-Jeong(崔錫鼎, 1646-1715), who was inducted into the Science and Technology Hall of Fame (http://kast.or.kr/HALL) for his mathematical achievements in October, 2013. In particular, we discover that CHOI Seok-Jeong was able to devote his natural abilities and time to do research on mathematics, and that he frequently communicated with his friend and fellow scholar, LEE Se-Gu(李世龜, 1646-1700), who was an expert on the astronomical calendar and mathematics, based on at least 24 letters between the two.

• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.175-190
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• 2007

드 모르간은 집합 단원에서 나오는 이름으로, 학생들에게 널리 알려진 수학자이다. 그는 19세기 영국의 대수학과 논리학에 영향을 끼치는 등 매우 폭넓은 연구업적을 남긴 수학자임과 동시에 위대한 수학 선생이기도 하였던 인물이다. 본고에서는 이러한 드 모르간의 생애와 수학에서의 업적을 간단히 살펴본 후, 그의 수학교육에서의 철학과 교수법에 대하여 살펴봄으로써 훌륭한 수학 교사가 갖추어야할 사항에 대하여 고찰해보고자 한다.

• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.21-32
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• 2020

Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, aspired to build an ideal university focused on the competent faculty and their research. His plan was carried out through opening the first American graduate program, hiring professors with the highest-level research performances, assigning them less teaching burdens, and encouraging them to actively publish professional journals. He introduced Department of Mathematics as an initial model to put his plan into practice, and James Joseph Sylvester, a British mathematician invited as the first mathematics professor to Johns Hopkins University, made it possible in a short time. Their concerted efforts led to building the Department of Mathematics as a professional research institute for research, higher education, and expert training as well as to publishing American Journal of Mathematics.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.267-280
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• 2010

In this paper we study construction methods of $n^{th}$ line in triangle. Russian Mathematician Zetel suggested some construction methods of $n^{th}$ line in triangle 80 years ago. We find Zetel's papers, in detail explain the Zetel's construction methods, and suggest two elementary construction methods. Our results are received in the process of Research and Education program in science high school.

• 대한수학회보
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.127-131
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• 1990

Let f:R.rarw.R be a continuous function on the real line R, and denote the n-th iterate of f by f$^{n}$ :f$^{1}$=f and f$^{n}$ =f.f$^{n-1}$ for n>1. A point x.mem.R is a periodic point of f of period k>0 if f$^{k}$ (x)=x but f$^{i}$ (x).neq.x for all 01, then it must also have a fixed point, by the intermediate Theorem. Also the question has an intriguing answer which was found by ths Russian mathematician Sharkovky [6] in 1964.

• 한국수학사학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.173-190
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• 2016

Luca Pacioli was a Franciscan friar, a prolific writer, a devoted teacher, a mathematician and a close friend of Leonardo da Vinci. He is also known to be the"father of accounting". He is best remembered for his two books on mathematics: "Summa de Arithmetica Geometria Proportioni et Proportionalita" and "De divina proportione". These two books, which were printed in the field of mathematics for the first time by using Gutenberg's printing technology, contributed to the development of mathematics in Europe. In this paper, we investigate various aspects of his life and mathematical contribution of Pacioli based on these two books.