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I agree with you Phukraut. Mathematics seems to have been reduced today to a method which utterly removes any form of cultural influence. The mathematical language and method used today relies on the setting out of a proof in the mathematical language, which is defined and valid only in the world of mathematics, although it has its applications.
But culture does seem to have some influence still on Mathematics..
Like you said Statistics is influenced by culture in some way. Mathematicians today are still looking for better and better mathematical models to model situations that occur in the natural world. The Bell Curve was a result of cultural influence, and we can see that the influence of culture on Mathematics seems to have opened another door in knowledge.
If culture can open doors in Mathematcs, like in Statistics, are we depriving ourselves of information in Mathematiccs because we dont have culture in Maths ?
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