The Science dept at Australia's most prestigious university, is now offering a course in "Indigenous Mathematics," in an effort to "decolonise maths." "Numbers and arithmetic and accounting often are of secondary importance in Indigenous mathematics." science.anu.edu.au/news-events/ne…
@clairlemon Are those who first developed maths, from Mesopotamia, considered to be white colonisers? What about Indians and Chinese who also developed their systems and integrated with it before Europeans?
@eclair_voyance @clairlemon Our numeral system is Arabic in Origin. Our decimal system is biological in origin, and universal at that. The word Algebra, for the love of God, is taken from the name of its middle eastern inventor! Yes, from the Greeks onwards, a lot of white Europeans were at the forefront>>