African Mathematics: From Bones to Computers

by Abdul Karim Bangura

Overview

This comprehensive text on African Mathematics addresses some of the problematic issues in the field, such as attitudes, curriculum development, educational change, academic achievement, standardized and other tests, performance factors, student characteristics, cross-cultural differences and studies, literacy, native speakers, social class and differences, equal education, teaching methods, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761853480
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	12/30/2011
Pages:	236
Sales rank:	881,445
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Abdul Karim Bangura is professor of research methodology and political science at Howard University in Washington, DC. He holds a PhD in political science, a PhD in development economics, a PhD in linguistics, and a PhD in computer science. He also is the author of sixty-one other books and more than 500 scholarly articles.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: General Introduction
Chapter 2: Beginnings: Mathematics of Bones
Chapter 3: Geometry South of the Sahara
Chapter 4: Numbers
Chapter 5: Beginning of Written Mathematics: Egypt
Chapter 6: The Maghrebian Tradition
Chapter 7: Combinatorics and African Applications
Chapter 8: Vector Calculus and African Applications
Chapter 9: The Fourier Transform and African Applications
Chapter 10: Mathematical Tiling/Tesselation and African Applications
Chapter 11: Bifurcations and African Applications
Chapter 12: Fractals
Chapter 13: African-centered Automated Generation of Metadata
Chapter 14: General Conclusion: Access to Mathematics versus Access to the Language of Power: Lessons from the Struggle in South African Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms
Chapter 15 Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

In African Mathematics, Abdul Karim Bangura attempts to utilize historical and contemporary sources to highlight Africa’s contribution to certain branches and sub-branches of mathematics and furthermore to explore the possibilities of research and teaching of mathematics from an African centered platform.. .. African Mathematics holds the promise of acting as a catalyst for indigenous knowledge-based exploration in all fields of study where African researchers can be found.

African Studies Quarterly

Among the new generation of Africanist scholars, Professor Abdul Karim Bangura is among the most outstanding. This work will redefine the literature in African studies.

Professor Baba Zak A. Kondo

Professor Abdul Karim Bangura has embarked on relatively uncharted waters by approaching African mathematics from many angles. He provides exhilarating findings on a subject that requires exorbitant amount of work and intellect.

Professor Mario D. Fenyo