오가와 요코(小川洋子)의 『박사가 사랑한 수식(博士の愛した数式)』론 - 작품 속 암호를 중심으로 -

Abstract

Yoko Ogawa's masterpiece "The Professor And His Beloved Equation" is filled with many codes. First of all, there is a character <Professor> who has only 80 minutes of memory since the traffic accident. He has to live in a limited sense of memory, but cannot accumulate memories. He couldn't remember who is hired as a housekeeper <I>. However, <Professor> has the most absolute and beautiful means of expressing himself through mathematics, and also he’s in contact with <I> through mathematics. It's not just like the shape of the head that he named <I>’s son <Root>, but rather he wants him to be like, in the same sense as the root of a mathematical symbol that is <a very generous symbol that allows someone to hang in any number>. <Professor>　found out about <friendship number> was the code and the decoding of expression of gratitude and affection for <I> in the middle of uncertain memory. Because of misunderstanding about the Root of <Widow>, who employs <me> to <Professor> and lives next to him, <I> and <widow> had to argue against each other. However, the quarrel between the two is stopped by a note of the equation left on the table by <Professor>. This is because they have respect and understanding of the perfect and beautiful formulas that <Professor> has seen in the <God’s notebook>. His wish for peace and mutual respect was accepted by them. By deciphering the code, <Professor> has had a good effect on human relationships.