Communications of Mathematical Education (한국수학교육학회지시리즈E:수학교육논문집)

Korean Society of Mathematical Education (한국수학교육학회)
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The Empty Set as a Mathematical Object

수학적 대상으로서의 공집합

  • Received : 2021.11.25
  • Accepted : 2021.12.22
  • Published : 2021.12.31
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Abstract

This study investigated the empty set which is one of the mathematical objects. We inquired some misconceptions about empty set and the background of imposing empty set. Also we studied historical background of the introduction of empty set and the axiomatic system of Set theory. We investigated the nature of mathematical object through studying empty set, pure conceptual entity. In this study we study about the existence of empty set by investigating Alian Badiou's ontology known as based on the axiomatic set theory. we attempted to explain the relation between simultaneous equations and sets. Thus we pondered the meaning of the existence of empty set. Finally we commented about the thoughts of sets from a different standpoint and presented the meaning of axiomatic and philosophical aspect of mathematics.

수학적 대상 중 하나인 공집합에 대하여 고찰해본다. 공집합과 관련된 학생들의 다양한 오개념과 그 원인을 살펴보고 역사적 공집합의 도입배경과 이와 관련된 집합론의 공리계를 살펴본다. 순수한 개념적 대상인 공집합을 통하여 수학적 대상의 속성을 알아보고, 공리적 집합론에 기반하였다고 알려진 현대 철학자 알랭 바디우(Alian Badiou)의 존재론을 살펴본다. 이상의 논의를 바탕으로 연립방정식의 해와 해집합을 집합을 통해 설명하고 이와 관련하여 공집합의 존재성이 갖는 의미를 고찰하여본다. 이러한 관점으로 집합적 사고를 재해석해보고, 수학의 공리적 철학적 측면이 갖는 의의를 제시한다.

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