Mathematics In African History And Cultures

Author : Paulus Gerdes
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781430315377

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Mathematics in African History and Cultures by Paulus Gerdes Pdf

This volume constitutes an updated version of the bibliography published in 2004 by the African Mathematical Union. The African Studies Association attributed the original edition a 'ÂÂspecial mention'ÂÂ in the 2006 Conover-Porter Award competition. The book contains over 1600 bibliographic entries. The appendices contain additional bibliographic information on (1) mathematicians of the Diaspora, (2) publications by Africans on the history of mathematics outside Africa, (3) time-reckoning and astronomy in African history and cultures, (4) string figures in Africa, (5) examples of books published by African mathematicians, (6) board games in Africa, (7) research inspired by geometric aspects of the 'ÂÂsona'ÂÂ tradition. The book concludes with several indices (subject, country, region, author, ethnographic and linguistic, journal, mathematicians). Professor Jan Persens of the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) and president of the African Mathematical Union (2000-2004) wrote the preface.

Author : Paulus Gerdes,Ahmed Djebbar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Africans
ISBN : OCLC:249851445

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Mathematics in African History and Cultures by Paulus Gerdes,Ahmed Djebbar Pdf

Author : Dirk Huylebrouck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030040376

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Africa and Mathematics by Dirk Huylebrouck Pdf

This volume on ethnomathematics in Central Africa fills a gap in the current literature, focusing on a region rarely explored by other publications. It highlights the discovery of the Ishango rod, which was found to be the oldest mathematical tool in humanity's history, thereby shifting the origin of mathematics to the heart of Africa, and explores the different scientific hypotheses that emerged as a result. While it contains some high-level mathematics, the non-mathematical reader can easily skip these portions and enjoy the book’s survey of African history, culture, and art.

Author : Paulus Gerdes,Ahmed Djebbar
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781105141003

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History of Mathematics in Africa: 2000-2011 by Paulus Gerdes,Ahmed Djebbar Pdf

Author : Paulus Gerdes,Ahmed Djebbar
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781105118074

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History of Mathematics in Africa: 1986-1999 by Paulus Gerdes,Ahmed Djebbar Pdf

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789401143011

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Mathematics Across Cultures by Helaine Selin Pdf

Mathematics Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Mathematics consists of essays dealing with the mathematical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Inca, Egyptian, and African mathematics, among others, the book includes essays on Rationality, Logic and Mathematics, and the transfer of knowledge from East to West. The essays address the connections between science and culture and relate the mathematical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

Author : Brian Evans
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781118853979

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The Development of Mathematics Throughout the Centuries by Brian Evans Pdf

Throughout the book, readers take a journey throughout time and observe how people around the world have understood these patterns of quantity, structure, and dimension around them. The Development of Mathematics Throughout the Centuries: A Brief History in a Cultural Contex provides a brief overview of the history of mathematics in a very straightforward and understandable manner and also addresses major findings that influenced the development of mathematics as a coherent discipline. This book: Highlights the contributions made by various world cultures including African, Egyptian, Babylonian, Chinese, Indian, Islamic, and pre-Columbian American mathematics Features an approach that is not too rigorous and is ideal for a one-semester course of the history of mathematics. Includes a Resources and Recommended Reading section for further exploration and has been extensively classroom-tested

Author : Jean-Claude Martzloff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-17
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783540337836

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A History of Chinese Mathematics by Jean-Claude Martzloff Pdf

This book is made up of two parts, the first devoted to general, historical and cultural background, and the second to the development of each subdiscipline that together comprise Chinese mathematics. The book is uniquely accessible, both as a topical reference work, and also as an overview that can be read and reread at many levels of sophistication by both sinologists and mathematicians alike.

Author : Rene Devisch,B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956726813

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The Postcolonial Turn by Rene Devisch,B. Nyamnjoh Pdf

This innovative book is a forward-looking reflection on mental decolonisation and the postcolonial turn in Africanist scholarship. As a whole, it provides five decennia-long lucid and empathetic research involvements by seasoned scholars who came to live, in local peoples own ways, significant daily events experienced by communities, professional networks and local experts in various African contexts. The book covers materials drawn from Botswana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania. Themes include the Whelan Research Academy, rap musicians, political leaders, wise men and women, healers, Sacred Spirit churches, diviners, bards and weavers who are deemed proficient in the classical African geometrical knowledge. As a tribute to late Archie Mafeje who showed real commitment to decolonise social sciences from western-centred modernist development theories, commentators of his work pinpoint how these theories sought to dismiss the active role played by African people in their quest for self-emancipation. One of the central questions addressed by the book concerns the role of an anthropologist and this issue is debated against the background of the academic lecture delivered by Ren Devisch when receiving an honorary doctoral degree at the University of Kinshasa. The lecture triggered critical but constructive comments from such seasoned experts as Valentin Mudimbe and Wim van Binsbergen. They excoriate anthropological knowledge on account that the anthropologist, notwithstanding his or her social and cognitive empathy and intense communication with the host community, too often fails to also question her own world and intellectual habitus from the standpoint of her hosts. Leading anthropologists carry further into great depth the bifocal anthropological endeavour focussing on local peoples re-imagining and re-connecting the local and global. The book is of interest to a wide readership in the humanities, social sciences, philosophy and the history of the African continent and its relation with the North.

Author : Claudia Zaslavsky
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106018157187

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Africa Counts by Claudia Zaslavsky Pdf

This fascinating study of mathematical thinking among sub-Saharan African peoples covers counting in words and in gestures; measuring time, distance, weight, and other quantities; manipulating money and keeping accounts; number systems; patterns in music, poetry, art, and architecture; and number magic and taboos. African games such as mankala and elaborate versions of tic-tac-toe show how complex this thinking can be. An invaluable resource for students, teachers, and others interested in African cultures and multiculturalism, this third edition is updated with an introduction covering two decades of new research in the ethnomathematics of Africa.

Author : Claudia Zaslavsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Ethnomathematics
ISBN : PSU:000025360837

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Africa Counts by Claudia Zaslavsky Pdf

Study by a mathematical scholar on the ways in which African people count, keep time and records, play games, use geometry in art and architecture, etc. Based on research in Nigeria and East Africa.

Author : Paulus Gerdes
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304105608

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Women, Culture and Geometry in Southern Africa by Paulus Gerdes Pdf

New edition of award winning book "Women and Geometry in Southern Africa: Suggestions for Further Research", published by the "Universidade Pedagógica" (Mozambique) in 1995. The original book contains chapters on geometrical ideas embedded in basket weaving, bead work, wall decoration, tattooing, and ceramics. The expanded edition includes a foreword by Sibusiso Moyo (Secretary of the African Mathematical Union Commission on Women in Mathematics in Africa, and Research Director of the Durban University of Technology, South Africa), afterwords by Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (Brazil) and Jens Hoyrup (Denmark), and the papers "Makwe colour inversion, symmetry and patterns" (Northeastern Mozambique) and "Symmetries on mats woven by Yombe women from the area along the Lower Congo." The book contains also a chapter written by Salimo Saide on the geometry of pottery decoration among Yao women (Nyassa Province, Mozambique). (2013, 276 pp.)

Author : Abdul Karim Bangura
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781622739516

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The African Mother Tongue and Mathematical Ideas by Abdul Karim Bangura Pdf

This book by renowned scholar Dr Abdul Karim Bangura combines linguistics and mathematics to show how and why African-centred mathematical ideas can be a driving force in Africa’s development efforts. Bangura explores the concept that Africa has been the centre of the History of Mathematics for thousands of years, as the civilizations that emerged across the continent developed contributions which would enrich both ancient and modern understanding of nature through mathematics. However, scholars and other professionals working in the field of mathematics education in Africa have identified a plethora of issues in carrying out their tasks. This is highlighted by one of the most compelling arguments in the book, which is that a major reason for these problems is the fact that the African mother tongues has been greatly neglected in the teaching of mathematics in the continent. Bangura asserts that a change has to be made in order for Africa to benefit from the exceptional opportunities mathematics offer, showing that, even if there is a great body of work connecting linguistics and mathematics, few analyses have been performed on the link between African languages and mathematics—and the ones that have been made are not theoretically-grounded on linguistics. Thus, the book begins by identifying the objects of study of linguistics and mathematics, and delineates which ones they have in common. Next, since the object of study of linguistics is language, the nine design features of language are employed to examine each of the objects as it pertains to African languages. After that, mathematical ideas of sustainability and those of tipping points are suggested as means to help Africa’s development efforts.

Author : Abdul Karim Bangura
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780761853497

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African Mathematics by Abdul Karim Bangura Pdf

This is the first comprehensive text on African Mathematics that can be used to address some of the problematic issues in this area. These issues include attitudes, curriculum development, educational change, academic achievement, standardized and other tests, performance factors, student characteristics, cross-cultural differences and studies, literacy, native speakers, social class and differences, equal education, teaching methods, knowledge level, educational guidelines and policies, transitional schools, comparative education, other subjects such as physics and social studies, surveys, talent, educational research, teacher education and qualifications, academic standards, teacher effectiveness, lesson plans and modules, teacher characteristics, instructional materials, program effectiveness, program evaluation, African culture, African history, Black studies, class activities, educational games, number systems, cognitive ability, foreign influence, and fundamental concepts. What unifies the chapters in this book can appear rather banal, but many mathematical insights are so obvious and so fundamental that they are difficult to absorb, appreciate, and express with fresh clarity. Some of the more basic insights are isolated by accounts of investigators who have earned their contemporaries' respect. Winner of the 2012 Cecil B. Currey Book Award.

Author : Thomas E. Gilsdorf
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781118115527

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Introduction to Cultural Mathematics by Thomas E. Gilsdorf Pdf

INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL MATHEMATICS Challenges readers to think creatively about mathematics and ponder its role in their own daily lives Cultural mathematics, or ethnomathematics as it is also known, studies the relationship between mathematics and culture—with the ultimate goal of contributing to an appreciation of the connection between the two. Introduction to Cultural Mathematics: With Case Studies in the Otomies and Incas integrates both theoretical and applied aspects of the topic, promotes discussions on the development of mathematical concepts, and provides a comprehensive reference for teaching and learning about multicultural mathematical practices. This illuminating book provides a nontraditional, evidence-based approach to mathematics that promotes diversity and respect for cultural heritages. Part One covers such major concepts as cultural aspects of mathematics, numeration and number symbols, kinship relations, art and decoration, games, divination, and calendars. Part Two takes those concepts and applies them to fascinating case studies of both the Otomies of Central Mexico and the Incas of South America. Throughout the book, numerous illustrations, examples, and motivational questions promote an interactive understanding of the topic. Each chapter begins with questions that encourage a cooperative, inquiry-based approach to learning and concludes with a series of exercises that allow readers to test their understanding of the presented material. Introduction to Cultural Mathematics is an ideal book for courses on cultural mathematics, the history of mathematics, and cultural studies. The book is also a valuable resource and reference for anyone interested in the connections between mathematics, culture, anthropology, and history.