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STEM Naming Double Standard (Short) (youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Then you're missing the point. Naming or bragging rights about who came up with what first is pretty ridiculous, and has no benefit to society anyway. I think the better question is "Who actually cares?".

Nobody is going run around to various cultures to correct the historic record now that we know different. If that were the case, then even at your own insistence, we'd have to REALLY find out who had the concept of what first, and chances are the majority of those things wouldn't be coming from who you thought.

Nobody is going to waste the energy and effort of doing that. That's insane. The popular terminology is what it is because of the propagation of it as such, and that's all their is to it. There's no sinister task at hand to ensure it doesn't change, and thinking so, yes, is idiotic. It's like being a child and throwing a tantrum because someone else at your kickball game got some claps for a play and nobody gave you any.

Also found this for you. Interesting read: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-the-arabic-world-turned-away-from-science

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

But did you even read my full comment. Aside from the general trend in names, it brings up the bigger subject of erasure of non-western thinkers from mathematics.

If nobody cared there wouldn’t be an entire adacemic subfield pertaining to this.

Also what does a random historical essay about the end of the golden age of science in the arabic world pertain to erasure of non-western contributions in mathematics?