books on African Mathematical Traditions

by Dr. Paulus P. Gerdes

pgerdes@virconn.com or pgerdes@coe.uga.edu



Geometry from Africa : Mathematical and Educational Explorations, Published 1999 by The Mathematical Association of America; Washington DC, 1999, xii + 210 pp. [Foreword by Arthur B. Powell] ISBN 0-88385-715-4

 

Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa (Africa World Press, Trenton NJ, USA)
(11-D Princess Road, Lawrenceville N.J. 08648, tel. 609-844-9583, fax:609-844-0198, e-mail:awprsp@africanworld.com);

Lusona: Geometrical Recreations of Africa (L'Harmattan, Paris / Montreal);

Lunda Geometry-- Designs, Polyominoes, Patterns, Symmetries (Universidade Pedagogica, Maputo);

Ethnomathematics and Education in Africa (IIE, University of Stockholm);

SIPATSI: TECHNOLOGY, ART AND GEOMETRY IN INHAMBANE (co-author Gildo Bulafo, Universidade Pedago'gica, Maputo);

AFRICAN PYTHAGORAS: A STUDY IN CULTURE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (Universidade Pedago'gica, Maputo);

SONA GEOMETRY: REFLECTIONS ON THE SAND DRAWING TRADITION IN AFRICA SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR (Universidade Pedago'gica, Maputo).

Forthcoming is the translation:

Culture and the Awakening of Geometrical Thinking (with a preface by Dirk Struik) [MEP-Press, Minneapolis MN].


books above, below a list of articles (in English):

New designs from Africa, Plus Magazine, Cambridge University (March 2002) (original title: Attractive Liki-designs) http://plus.maths.org/issue19/features/liki/index.html

From Liki-designs to cycle matrices: The discovery of attractive new symmetries, Visual Mathematics, Vol. 4, No. 1 (March 2002) http://members.tripod.com/vismath7/gerd/

m-Canonic mirror curves, Visual Mathematics, Vol. 4, No. 1 (March 2002) http://members.tripod.com/vismath7/gerd1/

Dr. Paulus Gerdes
Professor of Mathematics
Director, Ethnomathematics Research Centre
Visiting address: Rua Marconi 109 R/C, Maputo, Mozambique
Postal address: C.P. 915, Maputo, Mozambique


Tel. +258-1-49 45 04
Fax: +258-1-46 05 88


E-mail: pgerdes@virconn.com

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