Left: Design cut with mussel shell on possum skin cloak, 19th century, Kurnai Aboriginal people, eastern Victoria, sketched by AW Howitt. National Library of Australia.
Right: Maths lecturer, 2000: "Sketch the phase plane for the saddle point in this second-order linear differential equation with constant coefficients".
The human mind... across cultures and time... we all see and make and rationalize, within cultural context, the same patterns and motifs
#mathematics #dynamical_systems #Indigenous


