re: #145 Belafon

I don’t disagree with the idea that we push a European-centric view of the world, but the mathematics would still be the same if any version of humanity pursued any kind of technological progress. Prime numbers, quarks, and Fermat’s theorem still exist even if they are in Indian, Chinese, or Spanish.

The movie “Stand and Deliver” showed that a great teacher can transform students who were abandoned by the establishment into accomplished practitioners of mathematics. There really are serious flaws in how math is taught in this country — flaws that hamper our nation’s ability to compete in the modern world. Well, that and the focus on Ayn Randish economics which lead to brilliant physicists working in finance instead of science.