Lui Hui and Zu Chongzhi

I think depending on the topic or unit, it can greatly benefit our students to acknowledge and discuss sources of mathematics that aren't Eurocentric. I say this for two reasons. The first, it offers mathematical diversity. We are often plagued by tunnel vision in mathematics and once we find one way to do something or one way on how something is done, it is difficult to step out of that thinking and allow for more possibilities. Exploratory or investigative mathematics does just the opposite; it allows individuals to ask and discover mathematical reasoning. When one comes to these realizations themselves without explicit aid, they have an ability to comprehend other possible solutions. Other routes to solutions are what I mean by mathematical diversity. Teaching concepts like the relationship between the sides of a right triangle, pi and base-sixty number systems gives students the ability to see things differently. Another reason it is good is to combat the obvious bias of Eurocentric views. It is interesting, in the article "Was Pythagoras Chinese- Revisiting an Old Debate" by Ross Gustafson my "spidey-senses" tell me that if history was reversed and the Greeks wrote the Jiu Zhang Suahshu and the Chinese wrote The Elements, Gustafson would have praised the time (earlier discovery) instead of the rigorous proofs. We live in an Eurocentric world after all, and those are just my two cents. I think we can find beauty in both discoveries. 

In regards to the naming, this requires a long discussion. Unfortunately, we live in a post-colonial world. This affects many factors of our day to day lives that should not go overlooked. For several years, world maps used exaggerated the size of North America and inaccurately depicted the sizes of South America and Africa. Cultures that do not align with Western traditions are spoke of with negative connotations. Something as simple as eating with your hands is considered barbaric. Along these lines we can also find naming conventions. Naming is often a reframing of history so that it starts somewhere in Europe. So on this point, I don't like it at all. We should know the actual earliest discovery of math concepts and celebrate all who stumbled upon something related (so long as it was not stolen).