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STEM Naming Double Standard (Short) (youtube.com)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

But did you even read my full comment. Aside from the general trend in names, it brings up the bigger subject of erasure of non-western thinkers from mathematics.

If nobody cared there wouldn’t be an entire adacemic subfield pertaining to this.

Also what does a random historical essay about the end of the golden age of science in the arabic world pertain to erasure of non-western contributions in mathematics?