Who would have thought that smoke signals were evidence of indigenous mathematics. To conclude otherwise is apparently an example of prejudice engendered by enlightenment thinking.
“One interesting example that we are currently investigating is the use of chiral symmetry to engineer a long-distance smoke signalling technology in real time,” Professor Ball says.
To create and understand these signals, you have to be a skilled practical mathematician, Professor Ball says.
“Theory and mathematics in Mithaka society were systematised and taught intergenerationally. You don’t just somehow pop up and suddenly start a chiral signalling technology.
Surprised? My Granddaughter’s grade 6 math final last term was bead a bracelet.
She had to count the wampum?
Native professional wrestlers are paid in whomp-’em…
When your cultural Marxist “job” depends on the hyping of stone age “indigenous knowledge”, ‘anything goes’ as Cole Porter would lyricize.
Wow! 🙂
So as per this nutty professor, natives were peacefully and nicely doing high level calculus and n-dimensional vector algebra using smoke signals while those pesky white colonialist invaders came and destroyed everything.
In terms of dumb/idiotic, Reality beats Fiction. Again.
Wait. Were we not told that math is racist?
Now what.
LOL
so is it digital 1 and 0 or more like morse code. how did they break up the letters. longs and shorts. pretty good for a culture without consonants in their songs and able to control forest fires with a buffalo bladder of water
still waiting for chief teresa to share her magic fish broth recipe.
next they can brag that they were the last stone age culture on earth .
… and first people in North America to be in possession of slaves.
“… and first people in North America to be in possession of slaves.”
A fact that you will never, ever see mentioned in the mainstream news media.
We’ve torn down lots of statues and renamed lots of streets, buildings and universities…but what about Brandtford, Ontario? It is named after Joseph Brant, Mohawk chief and known *slave owner*, right?
When will IT be renamed?
There were no forest fires before Whitey, the Great Manitou was at peace with mother Earth.
What a nice old lady. It’s time for her to retire and look after her cats full time.
Bitch b crazy.
“Mathematics without borders.”
Or numbers.
Throw in some Chaos theory and smoke a big fatty.
Somebody needs to kick Professor Ball right in the balls, repeatedly, over and over and over again. And film it and put it on YouTube, just like in the movie Idiocracy, because that’s where we’re heading to,a world of Idiocracy!
On the bright side, probably less harmful than smart phones and TikTok. We need to get our kids back on smoke signals. Maybe they could vape them?
Woke mathematical history has a habit of taking primitive knowledge and equating it to far more advanced developments elsewhere. It’s quite silly.
Where the professor is somehow able to detect a whiff of mathematics, everyone else can smell the stench of racism:
“… the signalling procedure, in which husband-and-wife expert team Bogie and Mary-Anne selected and pulsed the smoke waves with a left to right curl, to signal “white men”, instead of the more usual right to left spiral. “
And yet they couldn’t invent the wheel…
Nor peace
So let me guess, smoke from one fire means supper is ready. Smoke from two bon-fires means hostiles on route and smoke from three fires means-noble people burnt village to the ground? Thus mathatically 1+2=3 and 3 plus 3 equals six right? So would their wearing war paint be advanced trig?
A serious question is how far could they count. I have heard of other primitive societies (sorry, FNs, you guys were primitive) only had words for one, two, three and many.
So when the smoke alarm told me dinner was ready, does that mean I was using indigenous technology?
” Indigenous Mithaka knowledge of vorticity ”
So the ability to communicate with smoke is equal to the Newton/Liebniz invention of calculus. These people will make complete fools of themselves and twist themselves into intellectual knots just to to denigrate western achievement. (Am I still allowed to use the word “denigrate”?)
We only had one song because we couldn’t understand the concept of 2 or 3 or ….
Ancient Indian Math = climate change.
“Heap big” proves we couldn’t count.
“What does that strange smoke signal mean, a fraction or a fractal”?
“No. It means his blanket caught fire…”!
What a load of codswallop. I say balls theory is smoke and mirrors; oh, wait, no mirrors.
or you know, it was magic to them, or the great sky spirits, or rote learning.
Interestingly, if you go looking for their language, it’s not openly available, so you can’t tell if they progressed past “1, 2, many”
1 rock, 2 rock, 3 rock, many rock.
Yeah somebody is blowing smoke…
Cannibalism was evidence of reality based cooking shows.