Ethnomathematics Digital Library

July 31, 2004 8:45 AM

The Ethnomathematics Digital Library, a collection of links and papers covering the interaction of mathematics and culture. (More Inside)
posted by thatwhichfalls (4 comments total)

A bit of a grab-bag of sometimes loosely related resources, but there's some great stuff here. For example: a short review of Mathematics Used by American Indians North of Mexico, Non-Instrument Weather Forecasting, a rather odd paper (pdf) on the Basque Septuagesimal System and the Thread and Pearl Analog Calculator.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 8:47 AM on July 31, 2004

More discussion of ethnomathematics in this thread.
posted by languagehat at 10:01 AM on July 31, 2004

Fun stuff, ethnomathematics. I enjoyed reading Mathematics Elsewhere by Marcia Ascher. The chapter on wave maps was great.
posted by hattifattener at 12:27 PM on July 31, 2004

Good stuff, thanks, and thanks for the link to the other thread, LH.

How I wish we could get de.licio.us/gmail-style free personal keywording for MeFi....
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:10 PM on July 31, 2004