The Crest of Peacock
Chapter 1
In the first chapter of “ the crest of the Peacock” , Georg Gheverghese Joseph offers an alternative perspective of mathematics history. I found it interesting the way writer sees the importance of scientific and mathematics achievements during pre- colonial period, and how we must identify the material conditions that gave rise to these developments and why modern science did not develop in those nations anymore.
He also mentions the wider issue, kind of controversial, of who “ makes “ science and it would be wrong to claim that generating technology and science is a privilege of certain generations.
Existing of systematic biases in selecting and interpretation of history, specifically math, which has caused mathematical achievements in non- Europeans societies been ignored and devaluated. How Europeans question the significant role of ancient science and even the quality of proofs and demonstrations in other civilizations, is another issue that I found interesting to explore more.
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