Tractatus Analogico-Mythologicus
I mentioned making my mother’s brinjal curry on Facebook, and some people asked for the recipe.
I never really liked brinjal as a kid. Then one day my mother served this dish at a dinner party, and I saw the light. 🙂
Here is what my mother emailed me years ago, for people who already have a general idea of how to cook Indian food. Below that I’ll add some additional tips and musings.
In his book The Crest of the Peacock, George Ghevarghese Joseph documents how the popular picture of the mystical, irrational Orient and the logical, rational Occident breaks down when you actually look at the history of the spread of mathematical ideas. He starts with the tired old “Greeks Did Everything First” narrative, and then gradually builds up a more complex — and more accurate — picture of how mathematical ideas spread and evolved.
Here I’m going to show you some of the diagrams he used to help illustrate his case: