Sona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… category of ‘ethnomathematics’, as if mathematics here was in some way linked to tribalism. The contribution of African … graphs, which forms part of modern knot theory, is used in very important branches of pure and applied mathematics. … 000 BC, which had 29 notches carved into it. It was found in the Lembombo mountains between South Africa and Swaziland. …