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"Nobody would ever dream of arguing against eurocentrism in number theory" You underestimate postmodernist literary theorists.
by tokai 11y ago
"Nobody would ever dream of arguing against eurocentrism in number theory"
You underestimate postmodernist literary theorists.
- danharaj 11y agoQuote one that argues the eurocentrism of number theory. Or are postmodernists just a bogeyman?
- ikeboy 11y agohttp://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Roots-Postmodern-Thought-Vladimir/dp/0195139674 http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Roots-Postmodern-Thought-V... http://reconstruction.eserver.org/Issues/044/blackwell.htm http://reconstruction.eserver.org/Issues/044/blackwell.htm
- tokai 11y agoI cannot give you a quote specifically about number theory. But I would point you towards the discipline of ethnomathematics if such things interests you. The wikipedia article seems alright.[0] [0](For your convenience) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnomathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnomathematics
- CamperBob2 11y agoIf no arguments exist concerning Eurocentrism in number theory, then one will surely have been invented, and likely disputed, by the time I'm finished typing this sentence. We have more philosophers than we have philosophy for them to do.
- sageikosa 11y agoToo much obsession on 1, not enough on 0.
- ricksplat 11y agoI thought our numbers were of Arabic origin?
- kps 11y agoIndian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hindu–Arabic_nu... Europe most likely adopted them via al-Khwarizmi's On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals, naming them ‘Arabic’ after the perceived origin of the author (actually he was Persian) rather than ‘Hindu’ after the title.
- sageikosa 11y agoZero sort of emerged from accounting serialization difficulties with positional base number systems. When it actually began to be treated as a number, all hell broke loose.