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Re:“Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider... by mc32 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:39AM (#30998686)
If people in Russian, or Spanish or Chinese or Indians want to call the Pythagorean theorem by any other name, let them, by all means, who cares? Let them print their own books, publish their own web pages and have them call it by whatever they want.

In English we get it from our own tradition, they can get it from their own. If they like they can very well make it up, who cares.

Is it racist if Indians or Chinese, or Egyptians have another names for it? Like who cares about where the nomenclature came from. They can call it frankfurter instead, or porkbun, who cares. In English we call it the Pythagorean theorem. We have our names, they have theirs.

What next, people who speak English remove any bible-inspired names and take up native names because using biblical names is racist by denying names 'native' to English? I guess Peter is out but William is in, right?

Wait, wait, to further decolonize the English language itself, we'll abandon the Latin alphabet and go back to Fuþark, better? Ah, decolonization!

Re:“Decolonising Math”: Durham U Asks Professors to Consider... by patrick451 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:44AM (#30999036)
100% agree. All of this whining about how people in the west have ignored traditions and discoveries from India or whatever is so...needy. If the west isn't that important, ignore us and do your own thing.