“Help me and let me help you.” Or in Ghana’s Twi language: “Boa me na me mmoa wo.”
The symbol intrigues ethno-computing expert Ron Eglash. “There is no math concept in Europe for ‘complete me,'” says Eglash, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Contemporary math has mostly Western origins, so ideas from non-Western cultures are often missing from the field, say Eglash and others who mathematics-revealed-through-non-western-art-and-design.html” title=”Alternative Perspectives on Mathematics Revealed through Non-Western Art and Design”>study ethno-mathematics, or the relationship between math and culture.
“It is useful to think of mathematics as a language,” says physicist Richard Taylor of the University of Oregon in Eugene. Some words and concepts will overlap across cultures but look different, while others will remain unique.
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