Background
Fang, Joong was born on March 30, 1923 in Piongyang, Republic of Korea. Arrived in the United States, 1948, naturalized, 1962. Son of Gabiong and Igab (Kim) Fang.
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This is a study of the first "Critique" of Immanuel Kant, examining the first "Critque" as a whole, liimiting the study strictly relative to mathematics. The greatest emphasis is on the relevance and compatibility between Kant's epistemology and mathematics proper in the mainstream, yesterday, today and tomroow. This text draws a line of demarcation between mathematics and metamathmatics.
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(Higher education, particularly in America, has never been...)
Higher education, particularly in America, has never been more of a battleground than now. When conflicting systems of political and educational theory dominate life on every campus. What is less often questioned, however, is the underlying value of that education itself, which is at the mercy of economics and a general desire to process as many diplomas as possible, even at the expense of quality. The author understands this predicament well, having served a lifetime of education and teaching in three continents. Comparing the merits and standards of the three systems, he demonstrates the deficiencies of American university education today and offers some simple but far-reaching ideas to reform.
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The history of philosophy and mathematics is long and fascinating, growing in different ways around the globe. Learning, East and West is one man's journey through two different worlds of thought, East and West. After growing up in North Korea, the author finds himself starting his adult life in the West, teaching mathematics, all the while studying, then also teaching Western philosophy and the core differences between the Greeks and the great East Asian thinkers. As a study on culture and how it affects an individual's way of thinking about the world, language and mathematics, Learning, East and West will open new horizons to all readers, East or West.
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educator mathematician philosopher
Fang, Joong was born on March 30, 1923 in Piongyang, Republic of Korea. Arrived in the United States, 1948, naturalized, 1962. Son of Gabiong and Igab (Kim) Fang.
Student, Chuo University, Tokyo, 1941. Bachelor of Science, College of Technology Seoul, Korea, 1944. Master of Arts, Yale University, 1950.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Mainz, Germany, 1957.
Assistant professor mathematics, Jinhae College, also U. Pusan, Korea., 1945-1948; assistant professor mathematics, Valparaiso (Indiana) U., 1958-1959; assistant professor mathematics, St. John's U., 1959-1961; assistant professor mathematics, U. Alaska, 1961-1962; associate professor, Northern Illinois U., 1963-1967; professor mathematics and philosophy, Memphis State University, 1967-1973; professor philosophy, Old Dominion U., Norfolk, Virginia, 1974-1990; professor emeritus, Old Dominion U., since 1990. Visiting professor U. Münster, Germany, 1971.
(This is a study of the first "Critique" of Immanuel Kant,...)
(The history of philosophy and mathematics is long and fas...)
(Higher education, particularly in America, has never been...)
Member of American Philosophical Association, American Mathematics Society.
Children: Eva Maria, Guido Andreas.