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African Mathematics. From Bones to Computers

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Author(s): Mamokgethi Setati, Abdul Karim Bangura
Publisher: University Press of America
Year: 2011

Language: English

Cover
Title page
1 General Introduction
2 Beginnings: Mathematics of Bones
3 Geometry South of the Sahara
4 Numbers
5 Beginnings of Written Mathematics: Egypt
6 The Maghrebian Tradition
7 Combinatorics and African Applications
8 Vector Calculus and African Applications
9 The Fourier Transform and African Applications
10 Mathematical Tiling/Tessellation and African Applications
11 Bifurcations and African Applications
12 Fractals
13 African-centered Automated Generation of Metadata
14 General Conclusion: Access to Mathematics versus Access to the Language of Power: Lessons from the Struggle in South African Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms
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