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Geometry From Africa: Mathematical and Educational Explorations is a book in ethnomathematics by Paulus Gerdes.

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Michael Gerdes (born ), German politician; Paulus Gerdes (–), Dutch ethnomathematician; Roswitha Gerdes (born ), German middle-distance runner.

This innovative book is a forward-looking reflection on mental decolonisation and the postcolonial turn in Africanist scholarship.

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It analyzes the mathematics behind geometric designs and patterns from multiple African cultures, and suggests ways of connecting this analysis with the mathematics curriculum. It was published in by the Mathematical Association of America, in their Classroom Resource Materials book series.

Background

The book's author, Paulus Gerdes [de], (–) was a mathematician from the Netherlands who became a professor of mathematics at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique, rector of Maputo University, and chair of the African Mathematical Union Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa.

He was a prolific author, especially of works on the ethnomathematics of Africa.[1][2] However, as many of his publications were written in Portuguese, German, and French, or published only in Mozambique, this book makes his work in ethnomathematics more accessible to English-spea