I hope it means they study how different civilisations and cultures all develop different forms of mathematics. e.g. ancient egypt used base 12 instead of our 10, which is why we have 24 hours, 12 months, etc
>What the frick does "decolonise maths" even mean?
Study, teach, and integrate mathematical developments and techniques from non-European cultures and schools of thought into modern mathematics.
Different cultures have developed and encoded math differently before the global shift toward Eurocentrism and it's for the best to go back and make sure nothing of value is being or was lost.
>except that's clearly not what this means
Except I read the article and you didn't.
>modern math is too developed that there's any real avenue for this.
The idea extends beyond "pure math" to shit like physics and mechanics and I highly doubt every local craft has been studied for its underlying features.
Beyond that, there may be applications for abstract systems to be found within pure math as well, even if it's only models and teaching tools.
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Anonymous
Or you could try reading between the lines and not being naive?
whatever mathematical traditions native american tribes may have had is interesting in its own right and deserving of study, but not going to contribute to algebraic topology. modern math is too developed that there's any real avenue for this.
Hopefully it means stop locking math and science knowledge behind subscription based gatekeeping indexes and corporate textbook copyright holder price fixing. RIP Aaron Swartz.
So what is of primary importance in Indigenous mathematics? Let me guess, it's something like "community" or "lived experiences" or something else that has likewise actually nothing to do with mathematics, isn't it?
bingo >“What the general public think of as mathematics tends to be whatever they learned (or, more likely, did not learn) at school. But in many Indigenous societies, mathematics is lived from when you are born to when you rejoin your ancestors,” Professor Ball says. >“It’s about formalised relationships within human society and with every element of the environment. Everyone is taught them. And the levels go up from birth to adulthood, as you are ready for more knowledge. This mathematics permeates every aspect of life.”
Remember when IQfy believed this nonsense was just a couple of undergrads in a few humanities departments at a small handful of schools or was nothing to worry about?
I was a humanities gay who tried to warn these homies. Now they're going to have to kiss Shaniqa's ass and learn that every achievement was due to hidden Black folk.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
this was the country their hedonistic lackadaisical boomer grandparents grew up in and failed to protect
I thought we got all that from mesopotamia not egypt?
I also really doubt that's anything like their intent.
probably just another way to deny these people acess to real knowledge so they become more mindless slaves
came across a book in my uni library once about >ethno-math
or something like that. indigenous peoples math traditions, patterns and stuff. book was from the 90s. this isn't some woke stuff, it's a real field of anthropology/history of math.
>“One interesting example that we are currently investigating is the use of chiral symmetry to engineer a long-distance smoke signalling technology in real time,” Professor Ball says. “If you light an incense stick you will see the twin counter-rotating vortices that emanate − these are a chiral pair, meaning they are non-superimposable mirror images of each other.”
indigenous math = engineering cuttting-edge technology for smoke signals
>the use of chiral symmetry to engineer a long-distance smoke signalling technology in real time
what absolute fricking horseshit. i've seen ai generated crap that looks more convincing
Racism is the one true ideology. All other ideologies were invented with the intent to confuse people and lead them away from the one thing which should concern them, which is the plight of their own kind.
It's true. Math has moved on from numbers to symbols. There are even jokes among mathematicians that highlight the demoted status of numbers, such as the joke where Grothendieck thinks 57 is prime.
>I hate IQfy
so leave
goodbye, your whiney b***h act won't be missed, you never contributed anything good to the board, nobody will notice that you're gone.
you must sit int he corner playing with your legos and ignore it until you wake up in a dystopian, incompetent, crumbling society and then are gulaged for asking "what the frick happened"
Only people like him are cowards and will never ask "what happened" as he unconsciously senses that is a no no to which is why he never bothered to ask "what the frick IS happening"
>Stop noticing things!
You're why things have gotten as bad as they have.
>I hate IQfy
so leave
goodbye, your whiney b***h act won't be missed, you never contributed anything good to the board, nobody will notice that you're gone.
What are they going to count? beer cans?
The point is that you dont count the beer cans. One VB or fourteen becomes the same thing.
What the frick does "decolonise maths" even mean?
I hope it means they study how different civilisations and cultures all develop different forms of mathematics. e.g. ancient egypt used base 12 instead of our 10, which is why we have 24 hours, 12 months, etc
>12 months, etc
I'm pretty sure there's another reason.
Yeah, women have 12 periods per year
If there were 10 months in a year then women would only have 10 periods per year.
no it's not exactly 12 per year. we have 12 months a year because of Julius Caesar
Kodak had a 13 month calendar made up of 28 day months and a free day
They didn't invent it, they adopted it, Ancient Egypt also had a 13 month calendar.
so they used base 13?
they obviously did
>What the frick does "decolonise maths" even mean?
Study, teach, and integrate mathematical developments and techniques from non-European cultures and schools of thought into modern mathematics.
Different cultures have developed and encoded math differently before the global shift toward Eurocentrism and it's for the best to go back and make sure nothing of value is being or was lost.
except that's clearly not what this means
>except that's clearly not what this means
Except I read the article and you didn't.
>modern math is too developed that there's any real avenue for this.
The idea extends beyond "pure math" to shit like physics and mechanics and I highly doubt every local craft has been studied for its underlying features.
Beyond that, there may be applications for abstract systems to be found within pure math as well, even if it's only models and teaching tools.
Or you could try reading between the lines and not being naive?
Words are on the lines, not between them.
whatever mathematical traditions native american tribes may have had is interesting in its own right and deserving of study, but not going to contribute to algebraic topology. modern math is too developed that there's any real avenue for this.
>Eurocentrism in math
>Shit was made up mostly in the middle east and western asia
shiggy diggy shlomo
Hopefully it means stop locking math and science knowledge behind subscription based gatekeeping indexes and corporate textbook copyright holder price fixing. RIP Aaron Swartz.
Powers that be calculatingly interpreting biological differences among groups of humans who evolved in different environs
No, they are clearly going to study the math of moronic countries...
So what is of primary importance in Indigenous mathematics? Let me guess, it's something like "community" or "lived experiences" or something else that has likewise actually nothing to do with mathematics, isn't it?
bingo
>“What the general public think of as mathematics tends to be whatever they learned (or, more likely, did not learn) at school. But in many Indigenous societies, mathematics is lived from when you are born to when you rejoin your ancestors,” Professor Ball says.
>“It’s about formalised relationships within human society and with every element of the environment. Everyone is taught them. And the levels go up from birth to adulthood, as you are ready for more knowledge. This mathematics permeates every aspect of life.”
Remember when IQfy believed this nonsense was just a couple of undergrads in a few humanities departments at a small handful of schools or was nothing to worry about?
I was a humanities gay who tried to warn these homies. Now they're going to have to kiss Shaniqa's ass and learn that every achievement was due to hidden Black folk.
this was the country their hedonistic lackadaisical boomer grandparents grew up in and failed to protect
I thought we got all that from mesopotamia not egypt?
I also really doubt that's anything like their intent.
probably just another way to deny these people acess to real knowledge so they become more mindless slaves
came across a book in my uni library once about
>ethno-math
or something like that. indigenous peoples math traditions, patterns and stuff. book was from the 90s. this isn't some woke stuff, it's a real field of anthropology/history of math.
>book was from the 90s.
and "woke"(communism) is over a century old, please try to make a point
Remember that amazonian tribe who had no concept of numbers greater than 4?
>change Ball to Berg in the headline
>leave Ball as Ball in the sub-headline
Sloppy bait.
shut up israelite
What's more, Claire Lehmann is in fact a megaisraelite who is perpetually pushing subversion in the guise of a le based centrist
>“One interesting example that we are currently investigating is the use of chiral symmetry to engineer a long-distance smoke signalling technology in real time,” Professor Ball says. “If you light an incense stick you will see the twin counter-rotating vortices that emanate − these are a chiral pair, meaning they are non-superimposable mirror images of each other.”
indigenous math = engineering cuttting-edge technology for smoke signals
>the use of chiral symmetry to engineer a long-distance smoke signalling technology in real time
what absolute fricking horseshit. i've seen ai generated crap that looks more convincing
No, but it probably should be.
Racism is the one true ideology. All other ideologies were invented with the intent to confuse people and lead them away from the one thing which should concern them, which is the plight of their own kind.
Why would abos need whitey to teach them their own mathematics?
It's true. Math has moved on from numbers to symbols. There are even jokes among mathematicians that highlight the demoted status of numbers, such as the joke where Grothendieck thinks 57 is prime.
Sorta similar, but not exactly. Thought I'd post it. Sick of this shit boys.
He got a doctorate title from PC University for that study. Compare that with what (You) have accomplished.
>pieces of paper that say that you are excellent in a cult's dogma is somehow good
you are not even trying
Goddamn, IQfy fell off hard.
>I hate IQfy
so leave
goodbye, your whiney b***h act won't be missed, you never contributed anything good to the board, nobody will notice that you're gone.
Hello tourist
>Stop noticing things!
You're why things have gotten as bad as they have.
you must sit int he corner playing with your legos and ignore it until you wake up in a dystopian, incompetent, crumbling society and then are gulaged for asking "what the frick happened"
Only people like him are cowards and will never ask "what happened" as he unconsciously senses that is a no no to which is why he never bothered to ask "what the frick IS happening"
>posting a question that pervades all of academia in the western world (is x rayciss) means you "fell off"
you are an idiot and need not come back
Y'all homies funny af.
>homies
kys drooler
Why you hot, bro?
>"black brother"ly thread
>still not remotely on topic
>just big egos getting troll'd
It's pathetic, these newbies have bitten like pitbulls.
Bickering and getting madly insulted is all they are here for.
>berg
Every fricking time.
It's a photoshop. Her last name is Ball. they didn't even bother to edit her name the second time in the same image.
It's obviously no math involved in this topic.