Why is math difficult? The new answer is: because post-Crusade Christian theology got mixed with it. So, the way to make math easy is to eliminate the theology in it. Here is an article on it, for the layperson, from The New Strait Times, 24 July 2011 (click an image…
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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).
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There was a conference in Penang on “Decolonising our universities” 27-29 June. A very interesting part of the conference was to share similar experiences of colonial and racist deceit with people from different parts of the world. Another very interesting aspect was the involvement of a number of young student…
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Jay Jolly asked: “Could you expand more on the the concept of “Zeroism”as applied in Mathematics?What changes do you foresee in pedagogy of Mathematics if the philosophy is changed from formalism to zeroism?” First I have a whole chapter on zeroism in my book Cultural Foundations of Mathematics (chp. 8 with…
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Here is my new book (ISBN: 978-983-3046-15-7). Academic imperialism begins with Western education, which has not been seriously challenged in hard sciences. Colonialism changed the system of education to stabilise Western rule through indoctrination. The change was possible (e.g. by Macaulay in India) just because a large section of…
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As modified and posted on H-ASIA, June 25, 2011. Witzel will be remembered for the amusing botch he has made. This sort of thing is an extremely common occurrence among Western scholars whose scholarship is hence unreliable, for they are so often so eager to demonstrate their own superiority by trying to score a point. (Remember that editor…
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The debate seems to have generated wide interest, so I thought I would record it here. Here is my original post on H-Asia. The comment from Michael Witzel, of Harvard University, is given in the comments section under that. Probability in Ancient India ************************************ The history of Asia is somehow understood in…
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Like calculus, probability too started off in India. People have long been asking me to write about it, and I finally did so. My article on “Probability in Ancient India” is finally out in the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, vol. 7. Philosophy of Statistics by Elsevier. The first…
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This question is often asked. Here is the short answer (in the terse Indian sutra style) It makes math easy, by eliminating the religious bias in it, and gives a better math, physics and history.
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On the occasion of Gagarin’s 50th anniversary and Ambedkar Jayanti take a look at my article http://arxiv.org/pdf/1102.2945v2. This corrects (the conceptual defect in) Newton’s “law” of gravitation, and explains the anomalous orbits of NASA spacecraft, and also stars in the galaxy, which that “law” cannot explain (and which have not…