Thursday, February 19, 2009

Mathematicians of the African Diaspora

"Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me that in memory [the Negro] are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous."
-Thomas Jefferson

"There is not a single mulatto who has done creditable scientific work."
-J. McKeen Cattrell, editor of Science (1913)

...and easily refuted here.

2 comments:

  1. But, apparently black mathematicians can't do attractive or easily navigated websites.

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