[Book Introduction] "It's easy to learn mathematics" Professor Lee Sang-gu’s 'Pioneers of modern mathematics in Korea'
- 자연과학대학
- Hit3643
- 2017-01-23
"Lee Sang-seol, Choi Kyu-dong, Yu Il-sun, Lee Chun-ho, Choi Yoon-sik, Jang Ki-won, Hong Yim-sik, Lee Yim-hak“
Who are those unfamiliar people? You can quickly find the answer through “The pioneers of modern mathematics in Korea (Man's Pattern, 2013)” written by Lee Sang-gu, professor of Department of Mathematics in Sungkyunkwan University, Professor Lee introduces them as follows: (Like the title of the book, they are pioneers of Korean modern mathematics.)
△ Lee Sang-seol: The father of Korean modern mathematics education (1870-1917)
△ Yu Il-sun: The first Korean mathematics bachelor (1879 ~ 1937)
△ Choi Kyu-dong: Mathematician of street, one of the very first president of Seoul National University (1882 ~ 1951)
△ Lee Choon-ho: The first Korean master of mathematics (1983 ~ 1950)
△ Choi Yoon-sik Received his first doctoral degree in mathematics in Korea (1899 ~ 1960)
△ Jang Ki-won: The very first expert in History of Mathematics in Korea (1903 ~ 1966)
△ Hong Yim-sik: The first female doctor of mathematics (1916 ~ 2009?)
△ Lee Yim-hak: The first Korean mathematician known to world wide (1922 ~ 2005)
If people who have lost interest in mathematics and are afraid of mathematics read this book, they might say, "Ah, that was it!" or "If teachers teach us these things and solve math problems, we might not give up math!“ In this book, we can see that there are many pioneers of modern mathematics in East Asia such as China and Japan including Korea.
In China, there was mathematicians such as HuaRuoGeng (1810-1985) and HuMingFu (1891-1927) the first Chinese mathematician doctor. In addition, ChenXingSan was named as the 20th-century representative geometer who served as the first director of the Berkeley Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
Kikuchi Dairoku (1855-1917) received his first doctoral degree in mathematics in Japan in 1888 and served as a professor at the University of Tokyo, established in 1877. He served as Deputy Minister and Minister of the Ministry of Education and the President of the University of Tokyo and the President of Kyoto University.
Fujiwara Riki Taro established Japanese mathematics education from the Meiji era and introduced Western mathematics. In particular, he made a death survival chart and contributed greatly to the birth of the life insurance industry in Japan. It also contributed to the election law by applying statistical theory to election data.
This book explains in detail how Korean traditional mathematics has moved into modern mathematics, and who played a central role in Korean mathematics. There is a lot of suggestion about the interdisciplinary exchanges and developments between North and South Korea. Just by looking at the difference in terms, there are many things to solve between them.
Those are just a few of them.
△ Subtraction – Reduced
△ Polynomial - Multidimensional Expression
△ Graph – Diagram
△ Venn Diagram - Meeting Diagram
Original: http://kor.theasian.asia/archives/169943