Professor Denounces Math (It Promotes Whiteness)

[Jennifer]

The Greeks were using complex Algebra over a millennium before the Arabs and there are ancient texts from the time of Christ showing this and were using the concept of zero and infinity in 200 BC since Archimedes invented calculus. Everything the Arabs had was second hand knowledge from the Greeks.

What does that have to do with the etymology of the word algebra?

[Fractal]

The Greeks were using complex Algebra over a millennium before the Arabs and there are ancient texts from the time of Christ showing this and were using the concept of zero and infinity in 200 BC since Archimedes invented calculus. Everything the Arabs had was second hand knowledge from the Greeks.

This is absolute bs. No single person discovered Algebra. Algebra was discovered by multiple people at different time periods.

Basically every major civilization worked out some portion of it but I'd say it definitely was not the Arabs first.

[wvwvw]

Yes, the word is taken from Arabic.

Which is corrupted from Greek Algorithmos deriving from Algo Rythmo (Difficult Symmetry), which the Arabs transliterated not very well into Al-Khwarizmi.

[Dandelion]

The Greeks stand at the basis of every civilisation. It's a known fact. Ask Raine.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

I'm currently using an algorithm to tell me which Black players will be more successful in putting a ball through a hoop for my financial advantage.

Math's racism knows no bounds.

[Fractal]

The Greeks stand at the basis of every civilisation. It's a known fact. Ask Raine.

Babylonians were solving algebraic equations before the Greeks. As I said before, no one person discovered or invented it.

[wvwvw]

This is absolute bs. No single person discovered Algebra. Algebra was discovered by multiple people at different time periods.

Basically every major civilization worked out some portion of it but I'd say it definitely was not the Arabs first.

You are absolute bs. The Greeks invented logical reasoning and rigorous mathematical proofs with which science cannot develop. They performed their own autopsies and operations on living patients and developed their own ideas from them. Then this knowledge was passed on to Arabs. Before 700 AC there was no Arab civilization. The Arabs were disorganised Bedouin camel bandits until Islam came along. The argument that it came form the illiterate Arabs who had no cities and no recorded arts or sciences until they obtained them from the Greeks who ruled them in Syria and Egypt is totally absurd. The Greeks controlled the traded roots in this era not the Arabs, for over 2000 years.

[wvwvw]

Were ancient Minoans centuries ahead of their time?
Unprecedented mathematical knowledge found in Bronze Age wall paintings.
Philip Ball

A geometrical figure commonly attributed to Archimedes in 300 BC has been identified in Minoan wall paintings dated to over 1,000 years earlier.

"This is the earliest time that such advanced geometric figures have been spotted," says Papaodysseus. "The next such figures appear only 1,300 years later." The team report their work in the journal Archaeometry1.

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/0602...s060227-3.html

[adsız]

Babylonians were solving algebraic equations before the Greeks. As I said before, no one person discovered or invented it.

He was doing sarcasm.

[de Burgh II]

Instead of trying to help kids reach a standard they attempt to get rid of the standard. This is more about her trying to protect her own education caste system from being held responsible for decades of failure. You can't be held responsible if students don't meet the standard if there is no standard.

Very true. Education is meant to challenge and strengthen one's mental acuity. If people can't meet the standards of what is expected of them; then that will only lead to a regression in the intellectual sphere. Its cognitively easier to shift the blame to an imaginative scapegoat rather than taking responsibility for their own failures. Which is why politics should never mix in academia. By lowering standards, we are inadvertently making more people self-entitled and intellectually stunted. Without challenge or maintaining high standards; it will only set them up for failure with unrealistic expectations and a fervent, zealousness for all things trivial and insignificant such as political correctness. Which in itself is a recipe for disaster because all political correctness does is promote favoritism, bigotry, victim complexes ("special snowflake syndrome") and intellectually stunted, hyper-reactive people.

Subjectivity and impartiality is a misnomer; its like mixing water and oil, they don't mix.