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February 2022

Education

Why (axiomatic) math is racist

“Is math racist?” asked a recent article in USA Today, the largest circulated newspaper in USA. The headline was widely mocked following which the paper changed it, and clarified that the article was about math education being racist. Clearly, EVERYBODY in US thinks math (per se) can NOT be racist: Read more…

By C. K. Raju, 3 years28 February 2022 ago
Education

The church origins of (axiomatic) math

Axiomatic or formal math is like a metaphysical (=unreal, invisible) cloak over useful normal math. This metaphysics is neither useful for any applications of math, nor beautiful. Modern math is NOT “rigorous”; just resurrects the con-trickery of medieval church theology by injecting a metaphysics (fantasy) of infinity/eternity into math. It Read more…

By C. K. Raju, 3 years24 February 2022 ago
Education

Racism in the math classroom: “Pythagorean theorem” and the two myths of “Euclid”

The term “Pythagorean theorem” is #racist, based on a lie that (White) Greeks did a superior axiomatic math unknown in (Black) Egypt. Did they? Was “Euclid” a White Greek male as imagined by Wikipedia or a Black Egyptian woman as in the cover of this book? Does racism affect math? Let Read more…

By C. K. Raju, 3 years3 February 2022 ago
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