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  • Education - History and Philosophy of Mathematics - History and Philosophy of Science - History of Astronomy - Uncategorized

    Decolonisation of education (Math, science, and History and philosophy of science) links

    June 4, 2014 - By ckr

    New videos Here is a link to a video interview (over 9 hours) with Claude Alvares on a variety of issues concerning decolonisation of education. This has been posted by Multiversity TV, and I should have posted it long ago on my blog. http://tvmultiversity.blogspot.in/2014/02/c-k-raju-interviewed-by-claude-alvares.html History and Philosophy of Science Part…

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  • Science and Society - Uncategorized

    MH 370: My take

    April 1, 2014 - By ckr

    MH 370 has been in the news for some time, so I expressed my views on a visit to Penang, and this led to a press conference the next day. The press has been harping on human factors, terrorists, hijacking by hacking, pilot suicide and all sorts of exotic theories.…

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  • History and Philosophy of Mathematics - History and Philosophy of Science - Physics - Uncategorized

    Infinity, math, physics, and metaphysics

    June 14, 2013 - By ckr

    Can physics be done without infinity as taught in math (real analysis) today? Someone demanded an explanation in an email sent to my son.  (I guess the Raju family has the same problem as the Bernoulli family in Europe!  🙂 .) Ordinarily, I would not have responded, for people ought…

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    Yoga, mathematics, and ganita

    June 9, 2013 - By ckr

    Yoga has been accused in the US of having religious roots, hence unfit to be taught in public schools, and there is  court case going on to that effect. The obvious solution is to teach yoga only for its practical value in public schools. But mathematics too has exactly the…

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    Euclid and Jesus now on Amazon

    May 6, 2013 - By ckr

    The subtitle is: How and why the church changed mathematics and Christianity across two religious wars. The book explains the relation of present-day school mathematics to the politico-religious beliefs of the church. The book is finally available on amazon.com as both paperback and ebook. BROWSE | BUY PAPERBACK| BUY E-BOOK…

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    Mathematics in refugee camps

    May 6, 2013 - By ckr

    Of what use is mathematics in refugee camps? And its history and philosophy? Explaining this was a tough challenge. P.S. Here is a video summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPWNL5YL2ds&list=UUTUs46gzu-mvO9hDIzzMfBg&index=1, and on the Campus in Camps website: http://www.campusincamps.ps/en/projects/c-k-raju/ https://www.facebook.com/CampusinCamps

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    History and Philosophy of Science: a new course

    May 6, 2013 - By ckr

    This new course is a world first. It was formulated after an intensive curriculum deelopment workshop already mentioned in an earlier blog. The West has systematically produced false history as propaganda to glorify itself and belittle others. This has further resulted in a bad philosophy of science and math. Typical…

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  • Physics - Science and Society - Uncategorized

    The “God” particle and creationism

    May 6, 2013 - By ckr

    Wow, the reports makes people believe that scientists have experimentally demonstrated the existence of God and the church notion of creation! Discount those people (who believe this) as gullible idiots if you like, but that is the constituency.

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    Making math easy

    June 12, 2012 - By ckr

    Dainik Bhaskar 9 July 2012 and Millennium Post 5 July 2012. Click above for text links.

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    National year of mathematics and the calendar

    June 12, 2012 - By ckr

    This time in English in the Millennium Post. (For the Hindi version in Dainik Bhaskar, see http://ckraju.net/blog/?p=76). The text version is a bit different. See it at http://www.millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=2227.  

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