re: #507 I am smarter than you

No doubt this was a man speaking.

What he really meant was that “No one wants to learn to succumb to a phallocentric world of male-oriented knowledge.” Well he is right! We need to explore other-knowledge that leaves the Cartesian world of binary opposition systems and discover Otherness intrinsic to multi-valued knowledge systems.

My dissertation explores male oppression that we find in mathematics with the use of the number “1” (if “1” is not a phallus, what is?) and explores how math and computer science could be changed by eliminating use of this number. I construct a new framework for math where the idea of “right” and “wrong” answers are discarded - instead this framework explores how we can give voice to the neglected and silenced numbers like 3 and 8.

I certainly hope you’ll be devoting time to the primacy of 0, not neglecting to note that while a number divided by 1 can ever only be itself (thus typifying the selfishness of the phallocentric), 0 reduces everything to itself. The Kali, Creator/Destroyer, Mother archetype.

But something so obvious would surely not be overlooked in any seminal— or rather, ovular— treatment of your topic.