In other words, this "educator" sucked at math and is using word garbage and nonsense to erase math similar to how her math teachers no doubt erased this "educator's" incorrect proofs from the blackboard.
As a now retired high school math teacher with 40 years of classroom experience, it never ceases to amaze me to see the number of math curriculum specialists and math education professors who will admit to sucking at math. I even had one say, "We have to find a non-algebraic way to teach algebra."
Funny the best guys I knew in my electronics class that were aces at some of the most complicated algebra called Boolean algebra were a black guy, an Egyptian, and a Spanish kid. I can do Boolean algebra in my head but shit that ain't white privilege. That's his concentration
This silly girl is getting far more attention than she deserves for her stupidity. Guys put up with her nonsense, hoping to get her into bed. Lord knows why straight liberal women pay her any heed, aside from their own inherent numeracy phobias.
But - and granted, I am assuming statistically you are not gay - how long would you humor her nonsense, if there were a reasonable chance of getting her into bed?
No need to pander, especially as it's unlikely to be reciprocated after Oct 8: David Blackwell was a brilliant statistician at Berkeley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell
That said, the most brilliant mathematician whose work I'm somewhat familiar with is John von Neumann. He used to spend his Sundays in Vienna tutoring Nobel Prize winning physicists on the new topic of transfinite induction (set theory post George Cantor). von Neumann was 8 years old at the time, and Jewish.
Among von Neumann's **minor** achievements are mathematical game theory, stored-program computers and the implosion calculations for plutonium-based nuclear weapons (joint work with Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam).
His major achievement was the rigorous mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, for which he developed the theory of operator algebras, some of these also known now as von Neumann Algebras.
von Neumann got his Ph.D. at the University of Goettingen, where the chairman of the mathematics department was David Hilbert, the most famous mathematician of the 20th century. His father didn't think mathematics was a serious career so, out of respect for his father, John von Neumann completed, concurrently, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Berlin.
So the ancients who thought up all this stuff were from France, England, and Germany? I never thought of the skin color of Babylonians before. Doubt they were white.
Hi Dale, thanks for your comment. According to Grok, "math itself evolved over millennia, beginning with the Sumerians in Mesopotamia, 3000-2500 BC. The Egyptians developed geometry and arithmetic for construction, while the Babylonians advanced algebra, all pre-dating formal Greek mathematics around 600 BC. Check out the Ishango Bone, which allegedly dates back tens of thousands of years.
There is also a theory now (discussed in Substack by John Guillen) that one of the great pyramids, which lacks any burials but empty spaces, was a sonic defense system which was used by the ancients to stop an invasion of our Solar system some 3000 years BC.
So, shall we accuse Dr G of being alienophobic? 😂🙄
I welcome disagreeing comments, because you make me research and l learn from it. 🤝
How is it "unearned privilege" if one has done the work to understand and apply the principles?
One notes this mendacious twat isn't blathering about the "unearned privilege" of persons of color who excel in sports fields based on spectacular genetics. Why not?
"Mendacious twat" is hilarious! And so very apt. I read crap like hers and come close to wanting to change sexes out of sheer embarrassment. But, my husband of 60 years says "No" to my becoming a very short, weak man. AG (for those who don't know me, my nom de plume on Power Line for 12 years and now Substack is Ammo Grrrll or AG. Remember, you can't spell MAGA with AG!)
I am on the political left and I condemn this nonsense, just as I condemn the junk science coming from much of the political right such as in the MAHA movement.
How do people get away with writing books full of such drivel?
Just from the Arab side, zero and the use of separate figures to create the decimal system is commonly attributed to Al-Khwarizmi, who also developed methods of multiplying large numbers and the use of fractions. He developed al-jabr (algebra) transformations and al-muqabala for solving quadratic equations. Omar Khayyam, a non Muslim Arab, developed his own visual methods of solving for high order roots. He developed a binomial theorem we know today as Pascal's triangle.
Other of today's "minorities" are represented the same way. The larger an empire grows, the more necessary higher math becomes and the more the empire gives their best minds to work on those problems. It is similar to how great music was developed, by state patronage.
Yet this author intimates that some minorities are incapable of math. Just nonsense.
The indians and other asians have proved to be the best at Maths worldwide . They will leave this pathetic establishment taking their money with them .
Edward W. Said’s 1978 book, Orientalism dismisses the advancements of Western culture by focusing on the frameworks of colonialism and imperialism.
Said’s perspective has been widely embraced within progressive circles in politics, academia, and the media, a narrative that characterizes America and Western cultures as inherently negative. In a nutshell that America and western culture is evil. The deflection of facts, particularly those related to the actions and history of Islam. This is what Islam is 100% guilty of.
His parents were born in the Ottoman Empire. He lived in Egypt, was a professor at Columbia University. The PLO Charter originated, was drafted in Moscow in 1964, Russia and Communist bloc countries collaborated with the PLO, this is when Arabs were renamed to Palestinians, to see them through the lens of anti-imperialism, a narrative designed to appeal to both the Left and the Islamic world.
I believe that ‘Palestine’ dates from Greek and then Roman control of the Holy Land. The Romans renamed Judea, Syria Palestina to insult the Jewish inhabitants and then they destroyed the Second Temple. The name may have been referred to by the Ottoman Empire, then revived by the British. It’s not an Arab name and there has never been a sovereign state of ‘Palestine’, just an administrative region of an empire. Prior to the sixties, Arabs were just Arabs. Their descendants were born in Arabia. The ‘Palestinians’ are indeed an invention by the Egyptian Arafat and his PLO together with the KGB , in order to use these Arabs displaced by wars they started, as a weapon against Israel and the West.
The historical usage of the term "Palestine" following World War I, was applied to the territory under the British Mandate, encompassing present-day Israel and Jordan. Jews, not Arabs, living in the mandate were referred to as Palestinians. “Palestinian” referred to Jews and land. During this period, the term "Palestinian" referred to the Jewish population and Jewish-led institutions. The British Mandate for Palestine was the region from the Mediterranean Sea to the Iraqi border. Jews and Arabs lived here. Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and Saudi Arabia never existed, all were made up after WWI, their right to self-determination is never questioned. It was Arab violence why only Israel was not established in 1917.
" It was Arab violence why only Israel was not established in 1917."
Nonsense. The area was part of the Ottoman Empire. There was no serious British presence until the Battle of Beersheva, on 31 October 1917, and the Arabs were fighting WITH the British against the Ottomans. Not until the Treaty of Lausanne was ratified was there any possibility of any non-Turkish state, and that treaty took effect in August 1924. And neither the British nor the French were interested in anything other than colonialism; the one anti-colonialist in either country was Clemenceau, and he lost the French presidential election in 1920 because of that issue. In addition, Muslims outnumbered Jews in the region by at least 5 to 1, possibly 7 to 1.
If it's irrelevant why bring it up? Citizenship in an Islamic state is rooted in faith. A Muslim's rights and duties are defined by their commitment to Islam, regardless of their place of birth or language. While non-Muslims in an Islamic state are granted specific rights and protections, they do not have the same rights as Muslim citizens.
I didn't bring it up. Another commenter falsely claimed that Arafat was Egyptian and you are supporting that lie.
The Ottoman Empire eliminated the religious distinctions of subjects in 1869. One manifestation of that was that Jews and Christians became subject to military service. A future Israeli Prime Minister, Moshe Sharett, served in the Ottoman Army in World War 1.
When algebra was invented, "Western culture" was pretty negative, with few other than monks and Jews even literate. Muslims saved much of the knowledge of the ancient world. Islam was also much more tolerant, accepting Christians and Jews. The Islamic world was much more prosperous, thanks to their support for free markets, free trade, freehold land ownership, and free migration of people. Europe had none of those.
The decline of the Muslim world had little to do with colonialism. The Ottoman Empire was very anti-intellectual.
The XIII century saw the dissolution of the Islamic Golden Age. Islam entered the dark ages. To see Islam as more tolerant, accepting of Christians and Jews is wrong, it is not what the archives show. We do not study those facts in the name of coexistence. Islam came to existence through violence. The First Muslim, Muhammad and followers were violent against those who did not acknowledge him as the prophet of God. He gave the other tribes 3 choices: expulsion, forced conversion or be killed. After Mohammad’s death, internal conflicts shaped Islam’s path, including the Ridda Wars and the long-standing theological and political split between Sunni and Shia branches regarding the prophet's rightful successor. Islamic historians documented the brutal Ridda Wars. Abu Bakr successor to Mohammed massacred anyone who renounced Islam, or refused to follow Islam. War was declared on all who left Islam, entire communities were wiped out. Apostasy was met with a sword. Islam spread, survived and was sustained by violence.
Islam left their indigenous home in the Arabian Peninsula in the largest imperialistic expansion in human history. This was a political, military and religious conquest across the Middle East, North Africa, India and Europe. In "The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise," Darío Fernández-Morera uses archival records to shed light on the Islamic rule in medieval Spain, a conquest lasting 7 centuries. His research explores the "Dhimmi" status of non-Muslims, the implementation of the jizya tax, a tax on non-Muslims, and the various social and religious requirements placed upon Christian and Jewish populations during that era. Subservient Christians and Jews had to wear recognizable markings. For Jews it was a yellow belt and a pointy head. Later adapted by Nazism, in the form of the yellow star. Christian churches were turned into mosques, a standard feature of Muslim conquest. The captors ravaged Spain; burned cities and killed those who resisted, young women were taken as sexual slaves, everything was done to create terror.
Starting in the 13th century, Jews were expelled from England, France, Portugal, and Spain.
The Muslim invasion prevented the genocide of Christian heretics, and Jews, in the Eastern Roman Empire. They didn't arrive in time to prevent that from happening to the Samaritans. But they did arrive in time to stop the genocide the Visigoths were perpetrating in Spain against Jews. The next three centuries were a golden age for both Muslims and Jews there. Things got much worse later, but anyone who thinks otherwise should be ignored. Oh and paying the jizya tax exempted you from military service, a big deal back then.
The Mongol Empire was much larger than the largest Islamic Empire.
Also, the Islamic Golden Age in Spain really ended in the 11th century. Successive more intolerant regimes ruled for the next two centuries, and by the end of that period both Judaism and Christianity were pretty much extinct in southern Spain -- and in North Africa as well.
This reads almost like a parody. Painful.
For a moment I thought it was published by the folks at Babylon Bee.
In other words, this "educator" sucked at math and is using word garbage and nonsense to erase math similar to how her math teachers no doubt erased this "educator's" incorrect proofs from the blackboard.
As a now retired high school math teacher with 40 years of classroom experience, it never ceases to amaze me to see the number of math curriculum specialists and math education professors who will admit to sucking at math. I even had one say, "We have to find a non-algebraic way to teach algebra."
Thomas Sowell said something to the effect that
“if you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation,
Keep the standards low in their schools, make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior.
Just don’t congratulate yourself on your compassion.”
It’s almost impressive they can keep coming up with this stuff.
She's written a lot of words to say "I have the bigotry of low expectations".
Also: "I was too stupid to do Math."
Yep.
She is an idiot.
Plain and simple.
Funny the best guys I knew in my electronics class that were aces at some of the most complicated algebra called Boolean algebra were a black guy, an Egyptian, and a Spanish kid. I can do Boolean algebra in my head but shit that ain't white privilege. That's his concentration
This silly girl is getting far more attention than she deserves for her stupidity. Guys put up with her nonsense, hoping to get her into bed. Lord knows why straight liberal women pay her any heed, aside from their own inherent numeracy phobias.
Don’t we use Arabic numbers for math anymore? They qualify as brown I believe. This professor is an idiot .QED.
I believe “Arabic” numerals were actually invented by Hindus from India. So that would make the Arabs guilty of cultural appropriation.
Isn’t using Arabic numbers cultural appropriation? Remove math from curriculum!
But - and granted, I am assuming statistically you are not gay - how long would you humor her nonsense, if there were a reasonable chance of getting her into bed?
No need to pander, especially as it's unlikely to be reciprocated after Oct 8: David Blackwell was a brilliant statistician at Berkeley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell
That said, the most brilliant mathematician whose work I'm somewhat familiar with is John von Neumann. He used to spend his Sundays in Vienna tutoring Nobel Prize winning physicists on the new topic of transfinite induction (set theory post George Cantor). von Neumann was 8 years old at the time, and Jewish.
Among von Neumann's **minor** achievements are mathematical game theory, stored-program computers and the implosion calculations for plutonium-based nuclear weapons (joint work with Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam).
His major achievement was the rigorous mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, for which he developed the theory of operator algebras, some of these also known now as von Neumann Algebras.
von Neumann got his Ph.D. at the University of Goettingen, where the chairman of the mathematics department was David Hilbert, the most famous mathematician of the 20th century. His father didn't think mathematics was a serious career so, out of respect for his father, John von Neumann completed, concurrently, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Berlin.
Same here. The best mathematician in my electronics class was a black man.
How utterly embarrassing for her.
It looks like the original essay has been removed from its internet site.
How about that
So the ancients who thought up all this stuff were from France, England, and Germany? I never thought of the skin color of Babylonians before. Doubt they were white.
They were Greek....
White, by the way.
Hi Dale, thanks for your comment. According to Grok, "math itself evolved over millennia, beginning with the Sumerians in Mesopotamia, 3000-2500 BC. The Egyptians developed geometry and arithmetic for construction, while the Babylonians advanced algebra, all pre-dating formal Greek mathematics around 600 BC. Check out the Ishango Bone, which allegedly dates back tens of thousands of years.
There is also a theory now (discussed in Substack by John Guillen) that one of the great pyramids, which lacks any burials but empty spaces, was a sonic defense system which was used by the ancients to stop an invasion of our Solar system some 3000 years BC.
So, shall we accuse Dr G of being alienophobic? 😂🙄
I welcome disagreeing comments, because you make me research and l learn from it. 🤝
How is it "unearned privilege" if one has done the work to understand and apply the principles?
One notes this mendacious twat isn't blathering about the "unearned privilege" of persons of color who excel in sports fields based on spectacular genetics. Why not?
Just more leftist nonsense.
"Mendacious twat" is hilarious! And so very apt. I read crap like hers and come close to wanting to change sexes out of sheer embarrassment. But, my husband of 60 years says "No" to my becoming a very short, weak man. AG (for those who don't know me, my nom de plume on Power Line for 12 years and now Substack is Ammo Grrrll or AG. Remember, you can't spell MAGA with AG!)
I am on the political left and I condemn this nonsense, just as I condemn the junk science coming from much of the political right such as in the MAHA movement.
How do people get away with writing books full of such drivel?
Just from the Arab side, zero and the use of separate figures to create the decimal system is commonly attributed to Al-Khwarizmi, who also developed methods of multiplying large numbers and the use of fractions. He developed al-jabr (algebra) transformations and al-muqabala for solving quadratic equations. Omar Khayyam, a non Muslim Arab, developed his own visual methods of solving for high order roots. He developed a binomial theorem we know today as Pascal's triangle.
Other of today's "minorities" are represented the same way. The larger an empire grows, the more necessary higher math becomes and the more the empire gives their best minds to work on those problems. It is similar to how great music was developed, by state patronage.
Yet this author intimates that some minorities are incapable of math. Just nonsense.
Thanks! I mentioned Al-Khwarizmi in a comment not having seen yours.
Is this satire? 😂
That was my first reaction. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be.
If only ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10649-024-10346-0
https://ipa.org.au/read/apparently-mathematics-can-be-racist
The indians and other asians have proved to be the best at Maths worldwide . They will leave this pathetic establishment taking their money with them .
Edward W. Said’s 1978 book, Orientalism dismisses the advancements of Western culture by focusing on the frameworks of colonialism and imperialism.
Said’s perspective has been widely embraced within progressive circles in politics, academia, and the media, a narrative that characterizes America and Western cultures as inherently negative. In a nutshell that America and western culture is evil. The deflection of facts, particularly those related to the actions and history of Islam. This is what Islam is 100% guilty of.
He also pretended to be "Palestinian" when he was an Egyptian. Same as Arafat.
His parents were born in the Ottoman Empire. He lived in Egypt, was a professor at Columbia University. The PLO Charter originated, was drafted in Moscow in 1964, Russia and Communist bloc countries collaborated with the PLO, this is when Arabs were renamed to Palestinians, to see them through the lens of anti-imperialism, a narrative designed to appeal to both the Left and the Islamic world.
I believe that ‘Palestine’ dates from Greek and then Roman control of the Holy Land. The Romans renamed Judea, Syria Palestina to insult the Jewish inhabitants and then they destroyed the Second Temple. The name may have been referred to by the Ottoman Empire, then revived by the British. It’s not an Arab name and there has never been a sovereign state of ‘Palestine’, just an administrative region of an empire. Prior to the sixties, Arabs were just Arabs. Their descendants were born in Arabia. The ‘Palestinians’ are indeed an invention by the Egyptian Arafat and his PLO together with the KGB , in order to use these Arabs displaced by wars they started, as a weapon against Israel and the West.
The term Palestinian with its current meaning dates to late Ottoman times, generations prior to 1964.
The historical usage of the term "Palestine" following World War I, was applied to the territory under the British Mandate, encompassing present-day Israel and Jordan. Jews, not Arabs, living in the mandate were referred to as Palestinians. “Palestinian” referred to Jews and land. During this period, the term "Palestinian" referred to the Jewish population and Jewish-led institutions. The British Mandate for Palestine was the region from the Mediterranean Sea to the Iraqi border. Jews and Arabs lived here. Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and Saudi Arabia never existed, all were made up after WWI, their right to self-determination is never questioned. It was Arab violence why only Israel was not established in 1917.
" It was Arab violence why only Israel was not established in 1917."
Nonsense. The area was part of the Ottoman Empire. There was no serious British presence until the Battle of Beersheva, on 31 October 1917, and the Arabs were fighting WITH the British against the Ottomans. Not until the Treaty of Lausanne was ratified was there any possibility of any non-Turkish state, and that treaty took effect in August 1924. And neither the British nor the French were interested in anything other than colonialism; the one anti-colonialist in either country was Clemenceau, and he lost the French presidential election in 1920 because of that issue. In addition, Muslims outnumbered Jews in the region by at least 5 to 1, possibly 7 to 1.
Arafat was never Egyptian. Egyptian does not and has never had birthright citizenship.
Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt.
Which is totally irrelevant.
If it's irrelevant why bring it up? Citizenship in an Islamic state is rooted in faith. A Muslim's rights and duties are defined by their commitment to Islam, regardless of their place of birth or language. While non-Muslims in an Islamic state are granted specific rights and protections, they do not have the same rights as Muslim citizens.
I didn't bring it up. Another commenter falsely claimed that Arafat was Egyptian and you are supporting that lie.
The Ottoman Empire eliminated the religious distinctions of subjects in 1869. One manifestation of that was that Jews and Christians became subject to military service. A future Israeli Prime Minister, Moshe Sharett, served in the Ottoman Army in World War 1.
When algebra was invented, "Western culture" was pretty negative, with few other than monks and Jews even literate. Muslims saved much of the knowledge of the ancient world. Islam was also much more tolerant, accepting Christians and Jews. The Islamic world was much more prosperous, thanks to their support for free markets, free trade, freehold land ownership, and free migration of people. Europe had none of those.
The decline of the Muslim world had little to do with colonialism. The Ottoman Empire was very anti-intellectual.
The XIII century saw the dissolution of the Islamic Golden Age. Islam entered the dark ages. To see Islam as more tolerant, accepting of Christians and Jews is wrong, it is not what the archives show. We do not study those facts in the name of coexistence. Islam came to existence through violence. The First Muslim, Muhammad and followers were violent against those who did not acknowledge him as the prophet of God. He gave the other tribes 3 choices: expulsion, forced conversion or be killed. After Mohammad’s death, internal conflicts shaped Islam’s path, including the Ridda Wars and the long-standing theological and political split between Sunni and Shia branches regarding the prophet's rightful successor. Islamic historians documented the brutal Ridda Wars. Abu Bakr successor to Mohammed massacred anyone who renounced Islam, or refused to follow Islam. War was declared on all who left Islam, entire communities were wiped out. Apostasy was met with a sword. Islam spread, survived and was sustained by violence.
Islam left their indigenous home in the Arabian Peninsula in the largest imperialistic expansion in human history. This was a political, military and religious conquest across the Middle East, North Africa, India and Europe. In "The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise," Darío Fernández-Morera uses archival records to shed light on the Islamic rule in medieval Spain, a conquest lasting 7 centuries. His research explores the "Dhimmi" status of non-Muslims, the implementation of the jizya tax, a tax on non-Muslims, and the various social and religious requirements placed upon Christian and Jewish populations during that era. Subservient Christians and Jews had to wear recognizable markings. For Jews it was a yellow belt and a pointy head. Later adapted by Nazism, in the form of the yellow star. Christian churches were turned into mosques, a standard feature of Muslim conquest. The captors ravaged Spain; burned cities and killed those who resisted, young women were taken as sexual slaves, everything was done to create terror.
Starting in the 13th century, Jews were expelled from England, France, Portugal, and Spain.
The Muslim invasion prevented the genocide of Christian heretics, and Jews, in the Eastern Roman Empire. They didn't arrive in time to prevent that from happening to the Samaritans. But they did arrive in time to stop the genocide the Visigoths were perpetrating in Spain against Jews. The next three centuries were a golden age for both Muslims and Jews there. Things got much worse later, but anyone who thinks otherwise should be ignored. Oh and paying the jizya tax exempted you from military service, a big deal back then.
The Mongol Empire was much larger than the largest Islamic Empire.
Also, the Islamic Golden Age in Spain really ended in the 11th century. Successive more intolerant regimes ruled for the next two centuries, and by the end of that period both Judaism and Christianity were pretty much extinct in southern Spain -- and in North Africa as well.
So math is racist?
Well that's wrong. I am white and I never understood algebra.