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Maybe calculus can be taught better, but this article has a political agenda: "However, the issue is not merely correction of history: the adoption of the deco
by Bostonian 5y ago
Maybe calculus can be taught better, but this article has a political agenda:
"However, the issue is not merely correction of history: the adoption of the decolonised calculus involves overturning deep-seated racist and colonial prejudices. These prejudices are not even easily recognizable as racist since they involve a false history and a bad philosophy of mathematics which was used to assert racist, colonial, and Western civilizational and intellectual superiority. Specifically, racism was bolstered by the belief that Whites/West invented a “superior” kind of mathematics."