This is part 3 of a three part series of posts. It is better if you first read part 1, which pointed out the long-term plagiarism by Joseph violating all academic and editorial norms, and part 2 which explained its ill effects on math education. I know the defence that…
Please read part 1 of this blog post first. Plagiarism, or the theft of knowledge, whether of the calculus, or of the calculus transmission thesis, has ill effects on mathematics education. This is not just about cheating in exams. When cheaters turn teachers it will naturally create a problem for…
After my book Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: the nature of mathematical proof and the transmission of calculus from India to Europe in the 16th c. CE (Pearson Longman, 2007) it is well known today that calculus developed in India a thousand years before Newton and Leibniz. Cochin based Jesuits stole…
At my IIT (BHU) lecture (see also previous post), I emphasized Bertrand Russell’s remark that there is neither meaning nor truth in (formal) mathematics. Hence, any nonsense proposition one desires (such as “All rabbits have two horns”) can be proved as a formal mathematical theorem from appropriate postulates: Russell’s sole…
Will be giving the institute lecture at IIT (BHU), the century old first engineering college in India, on the 18th of Jan, followed by a workshop on “Alternative math” on 19th of Jan. (The Workshop is from 10 am to 5 pm with tea breaks and a lunch break.) Core…
A conference on decolonisation of humanities was organized at Al Maaref University, Beirut. The big concern was how colonial education has altered human values. But Western education did not come for humanities, therefore my point was that merely changing humanities education won’t result in the desired change. The facts are…
A reporter from Africa met me recently in India to find out about the events concerning the panel discussion on decolonisation in Cape Town, a year ago. Someone here asked: could he be a church agent, who may again present a biased picture? I don’t know. But he does not…
The Palestine Technical University, Kadourie, Palestine, is organizing the Sixth Palestinian Conference on Modern Trends in Mathematics and Physics PCMTMP-VI, 5th-8th August 2018. I was invited to give two plenary talks (scheduled on 7th and 8th Aug) on Decolonising mathematics: how and why it makes science better (and enables students…
Here are the media reports for the Rajju Ganit workshop from Dainik Bhaskar, Nai Duniya, Talk show by Global Herald, and Free Press Journal Global Herald talk show प्रसिद्ध गणितज्ञ सीके राजू से खास चर्चा Dainik Bhaskar Nai Duniya26 June 2018 Global Herald e-paper 30 June 2018 Free Press journal
Racists are stupid nitwits. The whole business of racism is based on a stupid lie that people with a certain colour of the skin are superior. I thought everyone understood the stupidity of racists. Therefore, at a recent meeting in India, I was surprised when a couple of young people…