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Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: The Nature of Mathematical Proof and the Transmission of the Calculus from India to Europe in the 16th c. CE

Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: The Nature of Mathematical Proof and the Transmission of the Calculus from India to Europe in the 16th c. CE

Math is NOT universal. Indian calculus was transmitted to Europe in 16th c. by Cochin-based Jesuits, and poorly understood by West to this day.

2007

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Aristotle the laughable intellectual superman: from Stagira or pseudo-Aristotle of Toledo?

Aristotle’s historicity was challenged in a viral Chinese video. Western media attacked the person not his arguments (or mine from…

Feb 18

Aristotle the laughable intellectual superman: from Stagira or pseudo-Aristotle of Toledo?

Feb 18

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Practical ganita vs religious mathematics

Ganita (गणित) differs from (axiomatic) math. It makes math easy (especially calculus). Enables students to solve harder scientific…

Sep 5, 2023

Image of 1 orange plus 1 orange equals 2 oranges

Sep 5, 2023

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Who invented calculus? Aryabhata or Madhava?

Abstract: Calculus originated with Aryabhata 5th c. NOT Madhava or the Kerala school which refined it a thousand years later. Related…

Jul 3, 2023

Calculus due to Aryabhata, who first gave sine differences, not Madhava (who gave sine values)

Jul 3, 2023

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How formal mathematicians lied brazenly to keep Blacks subjugated.2: The conspiracy-theory polemic

To stop me from speaking in the math dept the Whites of UCT invented the polemic of conspiracy theory. What were they so desperate to hide.

Jun 7, 2023

Cover page of Eleven Pictures of Time (Sage, 2003)

Jun 7, 2023

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How formal mathematicians lied brazenly to keep Blacks subjugated. 1: The Bantuization polemic

UCT mathematicians lied to the press that teaching calculus so as to correctly do the 1st science experiment in school was “Bantuization”

Jun 5, 2023

Don’t trust a fromal/university mathematician

Jun 5, 2023

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In Black history month: a response to Nature’s editorials on decolonising mathematics

Colonial mathematics is a church trap with no exit

Feb 26, 2023

In Black history month: a response to Nature’s editorials on decolonising mathematics

Feb 26, 2023

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Scientific temper or colonial temper?

Ancient Indians had scientific temper. (But modern Indians have colonial temper, and deny this.) This article “Scientific temper or…

Feb 5, 2023

Scientific temper or colonial temper?

Feb 5, 2023

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The term “Pythagorean theorem” is false history: should go from our school texts

Summary: The term “Pythagorean theorem” is false Crusading history. It was used to justify Christian, White and then Western supremacy.

Jul 18, 2022

Comment made by NCERT math HoD on being asked for evidence for “Euclid” at a meeting in India International Centre during a seminar related to my book Cultural Foundations of Mathematics

Jul 18, 2022

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Christianization vs Saffronisation of education

Background to my detailed response Christianization vs saffronisation of education to Peter deSouza’s article in The Hindu.

May 8, 2022

Three different solutions of a retarded functional differential equation with different pasts but the same future.

May 8, 2022

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Why (axiomatic) math is racist

Claiming axiomatic (“modern”) math is “superior” enabled Western ethnomath to be globalised during colonialism. The West dominates it…

Feb 28, 2022

USA today changed its headline “Is math racist?” after it was mocked.

Feb 28, 2022

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Honorary Professor at Indian Institute of Education. Short bio at http://ckraju.net/cv/ckr-bio-1-page.html.

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