{"id":205,"date":"2021-06-08T15:03:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T09:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ckraju.net\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2021-06-08T15:03:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T09:33:30","slug":"euclidean-geometry-vs-rajju-ganita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Euclidean&#8221; Geometry vs Rajju Ganita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the lies and obscurities of &#8220;Euclidean&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presentations<\/strong>: <a title=\"Bengaluru day 1 presentation\" href=\"http:\/\/ckraju.net\/papers\/presentations\/Bengaluru-day1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Day 1<\/a>, <a title=\"Bengaluru day 2 presentation\" href=\"http:\/\/ckraju.net\/papers\/presentations\/Bengaulru-day2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Day 2<\/a> (space bar moves to the next slide)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Videos: <\/strong><a title=\"Benaguluru day 1 video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ERm25QgyW1w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Day 1<\/a>, <a title=\"Benaguluru day 2 video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=btf0e2flq8g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Day 2<\/a> (2:45:55, and 2:55:59)<\/p>\n<p><em>Both<\/em> &#8220;Euclid&#8221; and the related philosophy of &#8220;superior&#8221; axiomatic proof are just a church fraud concocted during the religious fanaticism of the Crusades, to provide support for Christian theology of &#8220;reason&#8221; set up by Aquinas and the schoolmen.<\/p>\n<p>Sad that Indians have been fooled for 2 centuries, and refuse to think. This incapacity is a design objective of colonial\/church education. Sad that the top formal mathematician in the country and abroad are running away from public debate in the manner of fraudulent astrologers: they have no concern for truth or for the future of children.<\/p>\n<p>Rajju Ganita or traditional Indian\/African string geometry is so much better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rajju-ganit-cover.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-201\" title=\"rajju-ganit-cover\" src=\"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rajju-ganit-cover-231x300.gif\" alt=\"Rajju ganita cover\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the lies and obscurities of &#8220;Euclidean&#8221; 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: Day 1, Day 2 (2:45:55, and 2:55:59) Both &#8220;Euclid&#8221; and the related philosophy of &#8220;superior&#8221; axiomatic proof are just a church fraud concocted during the religious fanaticism of the Crusades, to provide support for Christian theology of &#8220;reason&#8221; set up by Aquinas and the schoolmen. Sad that Indians have been fooled for 2 centuries, and refuse to think. This incapacity is a design objective of colonial\/church education. Sad that the top formal mathematician in the country and abroad are running away from public debate in the manner of fraudulent astrologers: they have no concern for truth or for the future of children. Rajju Ganita or traditional Indian\/African string geometry is so much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-history-and-philosophy-of-mathematics","category-science-and-society","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}