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Opinionated History of Mathematics

En podcast av: Intellectual Mathematics

Cracking tales of historical mathematics and its interplay with science, philosophy, and culture. Revisionist history galore

Our American listeners can also listen to Opinionated History of Mathematics at our American site

39 Avsnitt

Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive
Publicerades 2024-12-30

Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?
Publicerades 2023-11-29
Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity
Publicerades 2023-07-23
Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics
Publicerades 2022-10-11
The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?
Publicerades 2022-05-20
“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry
Publicerades 2022-02-20
Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry
Publicerades 2021-11-17
Rationalism versus empiricism
Publicerades 2021-09-18
Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe
Publicerades 2021-07-10
Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry
Publicerades 2021-05-10
“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry
Publicerades 2021-03-10
Why construct?
Publicerades 2021-01-20
Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4
Publicerades 2020-12-10
That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions
Publicerades 2020-11-03
What makes a good axiom?
Publicerades 2020-10-04
Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic
Publicerades 2020-09-08
Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem
Publicerades 2020-07-30
Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry
Publicerades 2020-06-21
First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry
Publicerades 2020-05-15
Societal role of geometry in early civilisations
Publicerades 2020-03-29

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.

39 Avsnitt

Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive

Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?

Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity

Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics

The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?

“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry

Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry

Rationalism versus empiricism

Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe

Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry

“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry

Why construct?

Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4

That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions

What makes a good axiom?

Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic

Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem

Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry

First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry

Societal role of geometry in early civilisations