The Black House Kollective initiated a welcome conversation in Soweto on decolonisation in relation to Western superstitions in science. For example, the first lesson in science is typically about Newton’s “laws”. But how do we know there are any eternal laws of nature? That was just a church dogma enunciated…
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4 Nov 2016 Dear Dr Rammanohar Reddy, Thank you for your response. I was under the impression that the Reader’s Editor is not a mere glorified post box, to forward mail to the editor, as you say you have done. In the event of a disagreement with the editor, I…
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False history of the kind that “Much, though certainly not all, mathematics was the creation of dead white men” has been traditionally used to defend racism. My Euclid challenge prize for Rs 2 lakhs is offered to demonstrate that this racist history is based on faith not any facts. Therefore,…
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Synopsis: My article “To decolonise math stand up to its false history and bad philosophy” published in Conversation (Global edition) became very popular, but was then taken down on “editorial grounds”. These “editorial grounds” did NOT relate to a single factual flaw or defect in my argument. The “editorial” ground…
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[This article was first published in the Conversation (Global edition) on 24 October 2016. It quickly reached a readership of 16737, before being taken down, obviously because it represents a dangerous piece of dissent against racism and colonialism. For more details see the next blog post. ] A false history…
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The video of my conversation with the Dalai Lama is now on You Tube. It is also still available on the official site . Reports of this appeared in Tibet Post, and in the Sunday Guardian and sundry news agency reports.
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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…
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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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Note: Am locked out of my website. The following “abstract” is for the forthcoming 39th Indian Social Science Congress, Mangalore, a talk at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and an international meeting on plurality in math in Kolkata. The idea is to talk and discuss publicly, not publish in secretively…