A more detailed account of calculus without limits for those with a background in formal maths is here in this series of six presentations at the maths department of the Universiti Sains Malaysia in early Feb. Got a little time off only on my last day in Penang, when I…
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Dear Professor Hoodbhoy, This refers to your article on “Islam’s arrested development” (Guardian, UK, 25 Nov 2009: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/25/islam-science-muslims-religion). I reproduce below my response posted at http://uk.buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:the_guardian665:47e5bc0f59fdfabb8fd85093cdd0f553/Islams-arrested-development–Pervez-Hoodbhoy — I agree that “Science demands a mindset that incessantly questions and challenges assumptions”. However, I would like to question and challenge the assumption…
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Excerpts from an article by Dr Asghar Ali Engineer in Islam and Modern Age. (Dr Engineer won the Right Livelihood Award also called the alternative Nobel prize.) SCIENCE, WEST AND ISLAMIC ORIGIN OF SCIENCE Asghar Ali Engineer Recently I came across an excellent monograph in the form of a…
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That was the remark that Come Carpentier made from the chair, during the debate at India International Centre, when he asked for questions and people remained silent for what seemed like a couple of minutes before breaking into a rush of questions. The debate was on the “Concepts of science…
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Newton did not quite understand the imported Indian calculus. To make it compatible with his religious beliefs about mathematics, he made time metaphysical. Newtonian physics failed exactly for this reason and had to be replaced by relativity. Read the abstract or watch the video of the presentation here.
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Most people dread or dislike learning mathematics. What a pity for a subject which means by derivation the “science of learning”! On my theory, math became difficult, when it got entangled with the post-Crusade Christian theology of reason, used as a weapon against Islam. The way to make math easy, therefore, is to disentangle it…
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In some of the preceding posts I pointed out that in matters related to history and biography, the Wikipedia often serves as an instrument for propagating ill-informed prejudices of all sorts because of its systematic reliance on secondary sources, and because its contributors are often ill-informed or prejudiced. This series…
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An encyclopedia is as good or as bad as its authors, and reflects their level of knowledge, and their biases. In theory it is all very well to say that things can be corrected, but in practice it may be as difficult as correcting astrologers, because confusion abounds, together with all…
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Why did science management fail so badly in post-independence India? Are we repeating the same mistakes? Why do we mindlessly imitate the West in science and math? Why do we regard Western formal math as superior without ever having carried out a comparative evaluation? Are our science and math “experts” even capable…
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Dear Mr Pitroda, It was nice to meet and interact with you again during the AIMA meet. I’m glad that you respect my fundamental disagreement regarding the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) and have agreed to place it on the NKC website. Let me summarise my disagreement. The key mistake made…