Celebrate Black History Month with "Invisible Mathematics"

Provides an historical view of African Americans and Mathematics

Mathematics has always played a profound role in the lives of African Americans. Starting from slavery to the Information Age, mathematics has directed the lives of African Americans. It has ruled and caused pronouncements on them that may never have been fully understood. This is very ironic when we reflect that the origins of mathematics have been traced to antiquity Africa. The trace starting with the count down of creation in the Garden of Eden, located in Africa, through the journey across the ocean to the lands known as the America's. Why then, has mathematics not been held closely or embraced like a friend to those of African descent?

Invisible Mathematics describes the sojourn of African Americans and their experiences with mathematics. How mathematics has been used for and against them, and how it will provide an opportunity for advancement in the future.

The book, "Invisible Mathematics", examines chronological periods in history and how African Americans affected and were affected by mathematics. The African American experience from slavery through the Information Age is examined. Evidence within each period details how mathematics has profoundly affected the progress of African Americans. From their position as slaves to the representation of African Americans as 3/5th a human; to their liberation, right to read, right to vote, and right to fight in the armed services. From their migration from the south to the north, from inner city to suburbia, from blue collar labor to white collar, from business employee to business owner. This book brings into perspective the need for African Americans to embrace mathematics as never before so that academic, social, and economic gains can be maintained and advanced in America.

In each period in history, and in the present, African Americans must seek out Mathematics that is not apparent in each event, activity, situation and circumstance. Mathematics can be undetectable without a concerted effort to search it out and identify it. It is figuratively "Invisible" without an effort being made to find its presence.

The over-sight and avoidance of Mathematics denies African Americans literacy that is an entrance to a number of key components of life. These components consist of academia, economics, politics, health care and numerous other areas that are mathematics intensive. Mathematics literacy can cause a whole new world of opportunity and understanding to open up to African Americans.

Author: Dr. Esther M. Pearson
Publisher: Xlibris
ISBN: 1-4134-8218-X (Trade Paperback)
Pages: 129
Subject: MATHEMATICS / History
Purchase website: http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=27573
Cost: $17.84
Contact Author: epearson@tp-group.net
Phone: 978-448-6319