Anatomy of Algebra 01-03 Other stories and other voices
Channel: Anatomy of Algebra
Date: 2020-08-17

In this section I wonder what good it has been to list of the names of people, places, names on the way to understanding algebra. I also introduce the idea that there is an inherent slant to telling these stories the way they're usually told. Besides often having to see through straight up mistruth, we're typically working from a rather singular, ultimately colonial perspective when we ask "where does algebra come from?" I also set up the next episode where I will discuss the influence of Euclid and the axiomatic method on later mathematics.