Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding...
by pqtyw on Monday April 14, 2025 @04:23PM
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Well you do have a point. It would be absurd. Just like the opposite. Both decolonizing and "further" colonizing maths makes no sense and is a waste of time at best...
Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding...
by breppp on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @07:34AM
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Is colonizing now a synonym for cultural fusion?
Surely the arabs have been colonizing mathematics by translating the indigenous greek works
Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding...
by defrost on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @07:39AM
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The arabs of the Abbasid Caliphate braided a rope by unifying Greek, Babylonian, and Indian mathematical and scientific works after translating original works into Arabic and extending them.
Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding...
by breppp on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @08:58AM
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As well as everyone else, why is it colonizing when the west do it to arabic mathematics and not when the arabs do it to western mathematics?
That argument is rather weird as mathematics was never about culture, but rather about logical truth
Re:Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding...
by Symbiote on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @09:22AM
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Since my example was apparently poorly chosen due to my own ignorance, and you're finding it worthwhile to have this discussion, I'll conclude that studying mathematical history ("decolonizing mathematics") is useful.
Algebra could be renamed Chestering, to credit the Englishman who did the real work of translating Al-Khwarizmi's text from Arabic into Latin.