Towards interdisciplinarity:

Einstein was a Jew and he fled Nazi Germany to the US; he went on to discover the nuclear bomb and the rest is well known history.

Science does not work in a vacuum; in fact – science evolves and lives within a social context – giving birth to and destroying societies.

If all disciplines became interdisciplinary – we would – be more educated.

For example – how would we theorise about maths being interdisciplinary?

The flow of logic would be thus:

1. map-making allowed for trade routes to be deciphered.

2. what maths was used; trigonometry and geometry. And so - this is where the student will be doing hard-core maths - to actually draw maps.

3. what were the policies of the East India Company. Which countries were they trying to reach?

4. estimate distances; how were the Americas mapped in the early colonial period.

 

 

I would assume that no one has done what I am suggesting; mathematicians will refer to hyperbolic geometry and cartograohy - but 98 % of the paper will be on the former; and you need to give due justice to both.

 

One can argue - would colonization and empire have turned out the way it did without maths?

 

Or for that matter - can you read the modernist movement in arts alongside maths? The impressionists make use of points - pixels - fractals/ you can quantify and measure the art created - using maths. In this particular instance - you are using mathematical concepts to understand art.