『천부경』의 수리철학적 해석

Abstract

This study attempts to make a mathematical philosophical interpretation of the numbers that are relevant to the whole structure of the Cheonbugyeong(天符經) with consistency. Existing studies have largely been conducted in terms of the Y-ching(易經) and Five Elements(五行) of Eastern philosophy, but I first divided the 81 letters of the Cheonbugyeong into semantic paragraphs, divided them into 7 sequences, and then, as a mathematician, looked at the number of the Cheonbugyeong on the basis of the archetypes and iconography of numbers in comparison with the interpretation of numbers from 1 to 10 introduced in a geometric scholar Michael Schneider's book, "A beginner’s guide to constructing the universe: The mathematical archetypes of Nature, Art and Science" published in 1994, (Translated in Hangul by Chungho Lee in 2002). Chapter 2 is a preparation for the interpretation of the Cheonbugyeong, in section 2.1 we notice the archetypes and iconography of geometric numbers based on numerology, and in section 2.2 we examine the relationship between circles and squares from the perspective of an ancient mathematical philosopher or philosophical mathematician who is deeply concerned with the Egyptian triangle or the Pythagorean triangle. And in chapter 3, the mathematical philosophical interpretation of the whole structure of the Cheonbugyeong is aimed at grouping the similarities and contrasts of sequences or some of its passages together, examining the principle of harmony of the three and the characteristics of number 6 in section 3.1, and the next section 3.2 revealing that all natural numbers were described as only nine numbers from 1 to 9 in the the Cheonbugyeong, by applying the concept of the root(根, note 66) of numbers.