黒田稔の関数思想についての考察

抄録

The purpose of this paper is to study how Minoru Kuroda (1871-1922) understood the thought of function and the education of function. Minoru Kuroda was worried that students lost interests in Mathematics and that they reduced the will to learn. So, he emphasized theories and applications in Mathematics. He considered that theories in Mathematics should be learned in applications. As a result, he accepted the thought of function considered by Felix Klein. And Minoru Kuroda considered that the thought of function must be trained in both algebra and geometry. After due consideration of the present condition of Japan in those days, particularly he accepted Klein's geometrical representation. And the concept of coordinates was accepted in algebra, and so analytical geometrical treatment and a point view of function were accepted in geometry. But he could not put the culture of mathematics, calculus and astronomy into a field of the vision about the education of function.