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Mathematics and other sciences, as we generally understand them today, emerged in a distinctive form in Europe. But every culture generates something equivalent to mathematics and science that works satisfactorily within its own context. These are bodies of knowledge that have been generated in a particular context, with specific motivations, and that have been and are subject to insufficiencies and criticism as well as changes resulting from exposure to other cultures. These are results of the major challenges facing the human species, which is driven to survive through encounters with others and with nature as a whole and to transcend the moment, searching the past and probing into the future.
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D‘ambrosio, U. (2000). A Historiographical Proposal for Non-Western Mathematics. In: Selin, H. (eds) Mathematics Across Cultures. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4301-1_6
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