Writings for Public Media

FAQ about learning mathematics

• Some tentative answers to questions from parents and teachers (December, 2020). 

Column for Hankyeoreh Newspaper

• Age and the reckoning of time (12 January, 2023)

• News in the age of the fourth industrial revolution (14 December, 2022)

• Mathematics as world heritage  (16 November, 2022)

• Fundamentalism and pragmatism in science (20 October, 2022)

• The death of the Queen and the value of memory (22 September, 2022)

• University admissions and social inequality (25 August, 2022)

• Why there were no Roman mathematicians (28 July, 2022)

• Memories of good books (30 June, 2022)

• Are science and religion in conflict? (2 June, 2022)

• Is an open world possible? (5 May, 2022)

• What is a European? (7 April, 2022)

• The Ukrainian mathematical tradition (10 March, 2022)

• The Korean mathematical community in the world (10 Febuary, 2022)

• Cultural roots of the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (13 January, 2022)

• Creativity and productivity (16 Decmber, 2021)

• The source of mathematical understanding (18 November, 2021)

• A Korean Nobel laureate (21 October, 2021)

• Edinburgh, the city of Maxwell (23 September, 2021)

• Emigration of a medieval scholar (26 August, 2021) 

• Platonic education and mathematics (29 July, 2021)

• Realistic discourse on university rankings (1 July, 2021)

• What is race? (3 June, 2021)

• Politics, Science, and Sputnik (6 May, 2021)

• English for mathematics  (8 April, 2021)

• In praise of errors (11 March, 2021)

• The chickenpox vaccine and Spanish orphans (11, February, 2021)

• Is Mathematical ability innate? (14 January, 2021)

• Mathematics with a human face (17 December, 2020).

• Humans, education, and artifical intelligence, (18 November, 2020).

• Nobel prize in physics for singular mathematician, (21 October, 2020).

• Atomism and Germ Theory, (16 September 2020).

• Descartes, the first modern meteorologist, (19 August, 2020).

• Century of Crisis, Century of Innovation, (22 July 2020).

Selection from 'Professor Kim's Mathematical Promenade' in Children's Mathematical Donga Magazine 

• Infinity, Mathematics, and the Universe

• The Number System of Matter

• The Mathematical World of Michael Atiyah

• The Structure Theory of Equations 

Essays

• Michael Atiyah and the Mediterranean, London Mathematical Society Newsletter, Issue 481, p. 43, March, 2019 (link). 

• IUTT Workshop, Oxford, December, 2015, (link).

• Geometry, Light, Probability, and Numbers: The Mathematical World of Pierre de Fermat Horizons of Knowledge,2015 (link requiring login).

• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Seoul, 2012 (link). 

• Mathematical Journeys, contribution to Korean edition of `Les Dechiffreurs', 2011 (link).

• On number and space, lecture in memory of Yunsan Lee Won-Guk, 2010 (link).

• Mathematical Vistas, 2007 (link). 

• Material, Structure, and Music, 2013. The KAOS foundation sponsored a talk concert featuring lectures and a conversation between the composer Unsuk Chin, Hyungju Park, and me. This is the text of my lecture.

Miscellaneous Articles

• Worthwhile mathematics is difficult for everyone Korean Economics News (October, 2019).

• Overcoming the Fear of Mathematics Donga Daily (September, 2019).

• Secret Link Uncovered Between Mathematics and Physics Quanta Magazine (December, 2017).

• Looking for the Romance of Mathematics in the Music of Chopin Chosun Daily (January, 2016).

• The Country where Children Give Up on Mathematics Hankyeoreh newapaper (April, 2015).

• Why the ICM is not the Mathematical Olympics Chosun Daily (August, 2014).