reading list
Here is a selction of books we recommend.
- George Gheverghese Joseph, The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots
of Mathematics, Penguin Books 1991.
- I. Van. Sertima,
Blacks in Science, Transactions Books, 1983.
- Claudia Zaslavsky,
Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in Africa Culture, Prindle,
Weber & Schmidt, 1973.
- R J Gillings,
Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs, Cambridge, MA.
(1982).
- Paulus Gerdes,
Geometry from Africa : Mathematical and Educational Explorations,
Published 1999 by The Mathematical Association of America; Washington
DC, 1999. ISBN 0-88385-715-4
- Silvio A. Bedini,
The Life of Benjamin Banneker, Scribner, New York, 1972.
- V. K. Newell, J. H. Gipson, L. W. Rich,
and B. Stubblefield, Black Mathematicians
and their Works, Dorrance & Company, 1980
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