Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

ulturs do not isolat mathmatis
Many
a sparat and spifi ativity or ara
as
knowldg, and do not nssarily hav
of
omparal to what w all
somthing
Mathmatial idas an found
mathmatis.
domains w would rogniz as rligious
in
art and dsign, gams and storis,
knowldg,
navigation and orintation pratis. How
or
w know whn and whthr othr ulturs
an
doing mathmatis? Ethnomathmatiians
ar
this qustion and th prolms
xplor
aris from it. Thy tak ar to pla
that
modrn prati of mathmatis has rarly
Th
Indignous mathmatial traditions.
aknowldgd
xption is th prati of kõlam. Kõlam,
On
“auty” in th south Asian languag
maning
is th nam of dsigns drawn in ri flour
Tamil,
a nturis-old tradition. Although
following
pattrns ar a form of dvotional art, thy
kõlam
mathmatial prinipls of symmtry and
mody
n studid y mathmatiians and
hav
sintists. Follow th link to find out
omputr
aout this ulturally mddd dsign
mor
and how it has ontriutd to th fild of
tradition
from Vijaya R. Nagarajan, author of
mathmatis
a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual and Ecology
Feeding
whih thy aris, aus isolating thm
from
lind us to thir dpth.
an
mathmatial idas that ar
Considring
in ulturs othr than your own,
mddd
What maks a ultur’s mathmatial
1.
mathmatial? Is it that thy onform
idas
your undrstanding of mathmatis
to
so you idntify thm as suh, or is
and
somthing univrsal aout thm, or
thr
ls ntirly?
somthing
How an w rogniz and undrstand
2.
mathmatial idas of othr ulturs
th
thy do not hav omparal formal
if
prati?
mathmatial
trms: Vijaya Nagarajan
Sarh
YouTu
Kolam
of mathmatis as artisti or rligious
Exampls
suh as kõlam, draw attntion to th
prati,
in mathmatis of knowing y doing.
possiility
ida is xplord furthr in III.5.
This
thr a diffrn twn undrstanding,
Is
and knowing mathmatis? Th writr
doing
Wrthim givs ross-ultural
Margart
of mathmatial know-how
xampls
for it was xprssd as a formula.
long
rading th xrpt low, onsidr
Whn
th popl ar doing mathmatis.
whthr
mathmatis is dfind as somthing that
If
n or an mathmatially provn,
has
answr might hav to “no”. To say
th
would man xpanding th dfinition
“ys”
mathmatial knowldg and prati into
of
trritoris of ultural, rligious and artisti
th
Rmmr that this dmaration
traditions.
knowldg into diffrnt trritoris
of
is a rlativly nw, and far from
(disiplins)
approah. What is lost and gaind
univrsal,
doing so? Is thr a as that mathmatis
y
ths oundaris mor radily than
transnds
AOKs?
othr
II. Perspectives
II. Perspectives
For ref lection
Mathematical ideas in different
cultures
rflt on th following qustions.
mathmatial idas in th ultural ontxts
in India, an Exploration of the Kõlam.
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