There have been many examples of censorship in South Africa. The censorship of my article in Conversation is well known. Most of the math and science faculty at UCT struthiously believe that their point is proved (and their jobs saved) if they refuse to engage with me publicly. The formal…
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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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As pointed out in the previous post, calculus started not with the Kerala school but with the dalit Aryabhata, of Patna, in the 5th c. The Aryabhata school in Kerala acknowledged him as their master, and Nilakantha somasutvan wrote a commentary (bhashya) on the Aryabhatiya. To repeat, the Indian calculus…
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The previous blog post contains two important points which need some elaboration. The first is elaborated in this post the second in the next. To quote: “They made out the Indian calculus to be solely a product of Kerala, when in fact, as explained in my book, it originated in…
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1-The fraud-news blitz Ten years ago, on 14/15 Aug 2007, on the 60th anniversary of India’s independence, PTI London released a piece of fraud news. All major newspapers in India prominently carried it, Hindustan Times on the front page, The Hindu on the back page etc. According to the news,…
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My article on “Mathematics and censorship” appeared in Kafila on 25 June 2017. The original censored article “To decolonise math stand up to its false history and bad philosophy” was first published in the Conversation (global edition), in October 2016. It went viral and was removed by the South Africa…
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My talk to the Critical Collective co-organized by the New Urban Collective and the University of Color at the University of Amsterdam on Decolonising mathematics and science. This was followed by an interview with Grapevine TV.
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A video of a talk at Berlin. Berliner Festspiele, MaerzMusik festival, “Thinking together: Decolonising time”. Some people with attention-span restricted to the twitter limit thought this was only about the calendar. So, here is the abstract: Decolonising time: time at the interface of science and religion, and the full presentation.…
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This interview was conducted at the University of South Africa summer school on decoloniality in January. (Click image to play on You-tube.) Decolonising math-Part 1: Decolonising math-Part 2:
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My article first published and then censored by Conversation (but remained on the Wire), has now been published in full as part of another article “Black thoughts matter: decolonized math, academic censorship and the ‘Pythagorean’ proposition”, in the Journal of Black Studies. Click the link to download from the journal…