The video of my MIT talk is now online at Calculus: the real story The abstract and presentation were put up on an earlier blog http://ckraju.net/blog/?p=106 The video of my talk at Indian Institute of Science is also online Calculus: ganita or math?
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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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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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Wow, the reports makes people believe that scientists have experimentally demonstrated the existence of God and the church notion of creation! Discount those people (who believe this) as gullible idiots if you like, but that is the constituency.
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Presented this talk at a school at Petropolis, Brazil. Lorentz covariance requires that gravity be velocity dependent. But old physicists can’t get over the 19th c. idea, reiterated by Eddington, that introducing velocity dependence in gravity makes the two-body problem unstable! They never studied functional differential equations, and no physics texts yet mentions my first…
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The Pusat Islam organized a talk on Islam and the philosophy of science. (Click the image for the paper. But the paper does not cover the queston of ethics of science, taken up during the talk.)
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For the last six months I have been repeatedly answering the question about superluminal neutrinos. I post below one such response from Sept 2011. Einstein was, of course, wrong, but not for this reason. He (and most other physicists after him) wrongly thought relativity matters only for speeds close to light. That…
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Another way to see the religious bias in present-day science (see previous post) is to look at the way it is used to attack Islam. (Note: specifically science vs Islam, not science vs “religion”.) See my paper on “Islam and Science” Indian Journal of Secularism, 15(2), 2011, pp. 14-29. For example, consider…
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The following papers were published in July on my teaching experiments on calculus. (Should have blogged about it long ago.) “Teaching mathematics with a new philosophy”, Part 1: “Formal mathematics as biased metaphysics”, Science and Culture 77(7-8) (2011) pp. 275-80 Part 2: “Calculus without limits” Science and Culture 77(7-8) (2011) pp.…
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Here is my paper, talk, for the decolonisation conference. Here is the report in the Sun by its former chief editor, Zainon Ahmad, 1 July (click to enlarge) (or online). Here are also the reactions (click to enlarge).