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[KJHS Forum] How Did a Confucian Scholar in Late Joseon Korea Study Mthematics? HWANG Yunseok 黃胤錫 (1729-1791) and the Mathematicians of Late Eighteenth-Century Seoul

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초록 The Yijae nango, a lifetime journal of a Confucian scholar of eighteenth-century Korea named Hwang Yunseok, contains detailed records about Hwang‘s study on mathematics and on his relationship with other yangban literati who had special-ized interests in mathematics. Based mainly on this material, this article examines why and how a Confucian scholar in late eighteenth-century Korea studied mathe-matics, including Western mathematics introduced from China. Hwang‘s interest in mathematics, as shown in his journal, was an extension of his interest in the tradi-tional learning of ―images and numbers (sangsu 象數),‖ an interest that he earned while studying Neo-Confucian texts compiled in the Complete Collection on Na-ture and Principle (Xingli daquan 性理大全). He began his mathematical study from texts on Chinese traditional mathematics, notably, the Introduction to Math-ematics (Sanxue qimeng 算學啓蒙), and as an extension of this study, he became interested in Western mathematical texts including the Elements of Geometry (Jihe yuanben 幾何原本), and the Essence of Numbers and Their Principles (Shuli jingyun 數理精蘊) and the Thorough Investigation of Astronomical Phenomena (Lixiang kaocheng 曆象考成). This paper also examines Hwang‘s records con-cerning the community of mathematicians in late eighteenth-century Seoul—the main figures in the field, their relations to one another, the circulation of books among them, and the trends of their mathematical studies.
주요어 Hwang Yunseok, Yijae nango, Western mathematics, Complete Col-lection on Nature and Principle (Xingli daquan 性理大全), Essence of Numbers and Their Principles (Shuli jingyun 數理精蘊).

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KOO Mhan-ock, "How Did a Confucian Scholar in Late Joseon Korea Study Mthematics? HWANG Yunseok 黃胤錫 (1729-1791) and the Mathematicians of Late Eighteenth-Century Seoul", The Korean Journal for the History of Science 34-2 (2012), 257-286.


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