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The book is divided into 11 chapters. Chapter 1 provides a lengthy justification for the book. Chapter 2 is devoted to a discussion of the mathematics of Native Americans and Chapter 3 to the mathematics of ancient Egyptians. The next two chapters consider the mathematics of Mesopotamia, then there
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funded by the Indian Academy of Sciences concerning Indian mathematics and its possible knowledge transfer. An ethics investigation of the research team of George Gheverghese Joseph and Dennis Almeida led to the dismissal of Dennis Almeida by University of Exeter and the University of Manchester
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misquotes Kline by replacing "Babylonians" by "Mesopotamians". The actual quote from Kline is "Compared with the accomplishments of their immediate successors, the Greeks, the mathematics of the Egyptians and Babylonians is the scrawling of children just learning to write as opposed to great
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David Pingree (September 1993). "Reviewed Work: The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics by George Gheverghese Joseph".
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are two chapters on Chinese mathematics, three chapters on Indian mathematics, and the final chapter discusses Islamic mathematics.
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accused Joseph and Dennis Almerida of plagiarism of his decade long scholastic work that began in 1998 for the
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For a critical assessment of some of the claims and arguments of the author:
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C.K. Raju. (2007). Cultural Foundations of Mathematics. Pearson Longman.
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The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics Third Edition
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A review of the book by European Mathematical Information Service:
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in 1991. The book was brought out as a response to view of the
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posting an erratum and acknowledgement of C.K. Raju's work.
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Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture
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George Gheverghese Joseph
English
Princeton University Press
ISBN
9780691135267
George Gheverghese Joseph
Princeton University Press
history of mathematics
Morris Kline
Eurocentric
C. K. Raju
Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture
"Book Review: The crest of the peacock: Non-European roots of mathematics: By George Gheverghese Joseph"
doi
10.1016/0315-0860(92)90042-a
"Review of The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics. 2nd. ed"
David Pingree
doi
10.1086/356553
JSTOR
235648
"Review of The crest of the peacock: Non-European roots of mathematics"
p. 177
p. 14
"Book Review"
The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics Third Edition
ISBN
9780691135267
"Summary table of plagiarism by Joseph and Almeida"

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