丁香园AV

 published Veselin Jungic's article Mathematics and

Abstract: This article demonstrates that 鈥淭he Raven Legend鈥�, a Haida myth transcribed by Franz Boas in 1888, is full of (ethno)mathematical concepts that Haida society used to make sense of the natural, real world. Calculus can be used to model several segments of the story since the narrative relied heavily on ideas that a mathematician would identify as the concepts of infinity and mathematical limits.

Balance Rock, Haida Gwaii, (Courtesy P. Borghardt)