(Note: The following article speaks the truth, instead of taking sides. However, the Indian media being totally polarised, I could not publish the article in either English or Hindi. Hence, am now posting it on my blog, since I feel it is important for me to take a stand on…
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(Keynote Tübingen/Pretoria 13 May 2021. Related articles now online.) Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAP1BcK8mLE Presentation: http://ckraju.net/papers/presentations/Euclid-must-fall.html Articles: Part 1: Racist prejudice and the false history of “Greek” achievements in math and science Abstract.To eliminate racist prejudices, it is necessary to identify the root cause(s) of racism. American slavery preceded racism, and was closely…
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To access the presentation for my zoom talk on ‘”Euclid” must fall’, described in the previous post, click the image below. A video of the recording premieres on 23 May 2021 at 12 noon IST.
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This is a video recording my concluding seminar (25 March 2021) as a Tagore Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Twitter summary: 1. Ganita (गणित) differs from (formal) math, 2. it makes math easy, and 3. makes science better. 4. This is an obituary of formal math. Slogan…
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(elaborated and simplified) An interactive workshop at the Berlin festival for time issues 24, 25 March 2020, 1500-1800 Berlin time. Facebook live stream: http://facebook.com/MaerzMusik will be only of the conference talk on the 21st March 1430 to 1600 Berlin time (1900 to 2030 IST). The workshop will cover the following…
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So, what are the lessons for decolonisation from part 1 and part 2? Lesson 1. Do not blindly trust Western/White authority. Fight to reject any system which forces such trust. If the editor of the most prominent math journal (Notices of the AMS) can act so shamelessly in such a…
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Part 1 of this post restated the facts regarding my novel mathematical point about “Einstein’s mistake”, how it was copied by Michael Atiyah during his AMS Einstein Centenary lecture of 2005, and its subsequent report published in the Notices of the AMS, 2006. Also copied was the claim that the…
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Background: What the decolonisation activist should know By way of background theory, decolonisation activists need to understand the following. Western wealth was initially built on the obvious theft of land (e.g. of “Red Indians” by killing them) and the theft of labour (of blacks by enslaving them) and forcing them…
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My first “official” seminar at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, introducing the topic of my research project as a Tagore Fellow. Ganita vs formal math: re-examining mathematics, its pedagogy, and the implications for science. Here is the extended abstract, and the official tweet from the Director (seated, extreme…
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Someone brought to my attention this article in the Wire on “poor” Albert Einstein. The author, a facebook expert, is unable to separate the myth of Einstein from the theory of (special) relativity (this intellectual sloppiness is critical to his argument). I had made this distinction (between the person Einstein…