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> what does this have to with nonsensical subjects being taught in universities Since we’re bringing it back onto topic, has any university ever ran a “decolon
by skyyler 2y ago
> what does this have to with nonsensical subjects being taught in universities
Since we’re bringing it back onto topic, has any university ever ran a “decolonised maths” program? What would that look like?
- pqtyw 2y agoI'm not sure. They did supposedly organized "Decolonization in Mathematics" conference. I have no particular interest in figuring out what that means exactly on a non superficial level because it would be a waste of time.
- skyyler 2y agoI googled the term you put in quotes and found a lovely article in Nature that seems to indicate that it's mostly about correcting common lies in Mathematics history. Seems relatively straightforward to me...
- pqtyw 2y agoThings like: "" Fibonacci's sequence (i.e. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ...) was discovered in Africa long before the Italian wrote it down, in the form of Ghanaian textile cloth and Egyptian temple design. (1) "" or: "" It is long believed calculus was discovered by Leibniz and Newton, however there is evidence of Indians having discovered the subject 300 years earlier in the Kerala School. (2) "" Fun trivia I guess. Also inconsequential if Fibonacci, Leibniz, Newton made their discoveries independently since further developments were based on their work. It's like saying that Ancient Greeks and not Newcomen or Watt "invented" the steam engine... Again, interesting piece of historical trivia but hardly has much to do with physics as a science.
- skyyler 2y agoWhere are those quotes from?
- acdha 1y agoThis appears to be the source: https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/school-of-mathematics/about-us/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/resources/decolonisation-in-mathematics https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/school-of-mathematics/about-us/eq...
- monkey_monkey 2y agoI agree - trying to show that other people may have discovered things that we believe we did exclusively is abhorrent and those people deserve all the sanctions that we can impose on them.
- const_cast 2y agoIt's significant because we already have patterns of thought where we credit civilization and such to white people and it causes problems. You might not realize it, but thousands of these tiny things over a lifetime creates a subconscious bias. And then that manifests in real ways. Like, for example, disregarding or discrediting an area of study you know nothing about based purely on the type of people who created the study.