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Quote one that argues the eurocentrism of number theory. Or are postmodernists just a bogeyman?
by danharaj 10y ago
Quote one that argues the eurocentrism of number theory.
Or are postmodernists just a bogeyman?
- ikeboy 10y 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 10y 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 10y 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.