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s0nicfan posted...

The argument is that since the historical significance of math "discoveries" are taught using the western people who discovered them (Pythagoras, Archimedes, Euclid, etc) as opposed to peoples of other nations who may have also discovered them (ancient Chinese or Indian mathematicians, for example), that it inherently makes white people seem superior because all the biggest math techniques are named after white people. The argument, as is often the case in situations like this, is basically "we need to make math less white" and the only way to do that is by erasing the historical significance of white mathematicians and replacing them in books with people of color.

Or we could just not teach who came up with stuff in Math class. Just call it "the right triangle theorem" and don't mention Pythagoras. As long as a + b = c is being known when building stuff, I don't care what it's called.
Teach all the people who came up independently with stuff in a separate class.
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