(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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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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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…
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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…
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(Note: This post first published in Decoloniality international newsletter, on Wednesday April 4th, 2018. Typos corrected. There is also a related blog post “Hawking singularities”, and a full-page review of Hawking’s book in “The Christian propaganda in Hawking’s work”, published in Daily News and Analysis, 16 Jan 2011. Another recent…
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The panel discussion at the University of Cape Town (UCT) achieved something important: it exposed Stephen Hawking’s co-author G. F. R. Ellis, a star of the racist apartheid regime. He ran away from UCT debate, because he could not defend through open debate the awful church propaganda he along with…
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For those colonised minds who superstitiously believe formal math and Western science are universal, there was a panel discussion at the University of Cape Town. Decolonising science panel discussion The key point: anti-empirical formal math is used to slip in church dogmas into science. Of course normal math (imported by…
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What did Einstein really say about gravitational waves? First, the background. In almost twenty five years, no one has answered the objections I raised about Einstein. Namely that he did not fully understand the special theory of relativity invented by Poincare. Special relativity requires functional differential equations, as Poincare realised.…
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A PhD student from IIT Madras asked me to comment on the reported discovery of gravitational waves in relation to my points about Einstein. My comments were as follows. Any claim that the experiment has confirmed general relativity is wrong; scientific theories can only be refuted, never confirmed. It is…