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  • Education - History and Philosophy of Mathematics - History and Philosophy of Science - History of Astronomy - Physics - Science and Society - Uncategorized

    Astrology in university education – twenty years after

    September 11, 2021 - By ckr

    (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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    “Euclid” must fall: racism, the church, and the axiomatic method (collected resources)

    July 2, 2021 - By ckr

    (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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    “Euclidean” Geometry vs Rajju Ganita

    June 8, 2021 - By ckr

    All the lies and obscurities of “Euclidean” geometry, as taught in the NCERT class VI, IX, and X school texts, stand exposed in these presentations and videos of the workshop held on 5 and 6 June 2021. Presentations: Day 1, Day 2 (space bar moves to the next slide) Videos:…

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    Rajju Ganita workshop Bengaluru, 5-6 June 2021

    May 21, 2021 - By ckr

    UDHBHAVAHA brings you SHOULD OUR SCHOOL CHILDREN LEARN “EUCLIDEAN” GEOMETRY OR RAJJU GANITA? By Prof. C.K RAJU A 2-day workshop to discuss: (1) The falsehoods and obscurities in “Euclidean” geometry, as currently taught (2) Why Indian śulba (string) geometry is a better way to teach geometry. DATE: 5th and 6th…

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    “Euclid” must fall

    May 14, 2021 - By ckr

    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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    ‘“Euclid” must fall’. Keynote: Tübingen/Pretoria 13 May 2021

    May 5, 2021 - By ckr

    The keynote is on the origin of the excessively foolish, but persistent, belief in racist superiority, AND its cure. Here are the details of the International Colloquium and an extended abstract. The times in the program are German times. How does this concern Indians? Because the colonial myth of civilizational…

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    The first step to cure racism

    June 8, 2020 - By ckr

    (In response to a post asking about the possible cure for racism, by Ron Eglash on the Isgem mailing list (International study group on ethnomathematics) Well Ron, Let us ask what we and Isgem, in particular, can do about it. The false sense of racist superiority was created and is…

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    The Eleven Pictures of Time: the Physics, Philosophy, and Politics of time beliefs

    March 4, 2020 - By ckr

    (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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    Plagiarism by ex-president of the Royal Society. 3: Lessons for decolonisation of math

    November 8, 2019 - By ckr

    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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    Plagiarism by ex-president of the Royal Society. 2: The cover-up by the American Mathematical Society

    November 8, 2019 - By ckr

    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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