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Mathematics

  • Book Review: The Universal History of Numbers

    Omar Ali reposts a review he wrote 20 years ago of Georges Ifrah’s Universal History of Numbers, recounting how a schoolteacher’s pupils’ question about the origin of numbers sent Ifrah…

    Omar Ali17 August 202046 comments

  • Post Modernism (d)

    Fourth in a series on postmodernism, the author speculates that some Westerners call mathematics racist out of fear it favours ‘brown’ cultures in a new AI economy, and relates maths…

    AnAn9 November 20199 comments
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