Opinionated History of Mathematics
Un podcast de Intellectual Mathematics
40 Épisodes
-
Death of Archimedes
Publié: 15/07/2025 -
Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive
Publié: 30/12/2024 -
Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?
Publié: 29/11/2023 -
Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity
Publié: 23/07/2023 -
Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics
Publié: 11/10/2022 -
The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?
Publié: 20/05/2022 -
“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry
Publié: 20/02/2022 -
Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry
Publié: 17/11/2021 -
Rationalism versus empiricism
Publié: 18/09/2021 -
Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe
Publié: 10/07/2021 -
Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry
Publié: 10/05/2021 -
“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry
Publié: 10/03/2021 -
Why construct?
Publié: 20/01/2021 -
Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4
Publié: 10/12/2020 -
That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions
Publié: 03/11/2020 -
What makes a good axiom?
Publié: 04/10/2020 -
Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic
Publié: 08/09/2020 -
Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem
Publié: 30/07/2020 -
Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry
Publié: 21/06/2020 -
First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry
Publié: 15/05/2020
Cracking tales of historical mathematics and its interplay with science, philosophy, and culture. Revisionist history galore. Contrarian takes on received wisdom. Implications for teaching. Informed by current scholarship. By Dr Viktor Blåsjö.
