Became an honorary member of the the Institute of Complex Thought at the University Ricardo Palma. Good to know that they want to try the 5-day course on calculus.
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A few years ago, when a friend, Jorge Ishizawa from Lima, asked for a copy of my book Cultural Foundations of Mathematics, I wondered what he would do with it. (I sent it, but it bounced back.) On a recent visit to Peru, I had a conversation with people at…
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The abstract of my talk at MIT differs from my presentation, posted at http://ckraju.net/papers/presentations/MIT.pdf. The point I made in the talk was that MIT teaches calculus and trigonometry wrongly. This is just because Europeans failed to understand the mathematics they imported from India. For example, the very words “trigonometry”, “zero”, “surd”,…
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For almost two decades now, I have been pointing out that formal mathematics (and much Western philosophy) is based on the false belief that proof based on two valued logic (“deduction”) is “superior” to empirical proof (“induction”). This belief is NOT universal (e.g. Indian mathematicians used empirical proofs, e.g. Buddhists…
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My article published today in The Hindu, was heavily abbreviated. The more detailed original article in about 1200 words is easier to understand. The petition to teach religiously neutral math, and related material is already on this blog. A draft of a more detailed paper on “Eternity and Infinity” delineating…
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My article in The Hindu, 3 Sep 2014, received 214 comments and 4.3k Facebook Likes. Here are my responses. (A separate response in Hindi to Dinanath Batra’s associate’s comments on my Jansatta article in Hindi of 10 Aug 2014 is given below.) Abuse. Some people have turned abusive and chanted abuses like mantras! Funnily,…
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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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Petition is given below. To sign online go to: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/teach-religiously-neutral-mathematics If you are convinced, do also SPREAD the word by forwarding this email to others. Anyone who has children or grandchildren in school (or had a bad math experience in school) qualifies as a potential signatory, as does anyone who…
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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 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…