Opinionated History of Mathematics
Podcast tekijän mukaan Intellectual Mathematics
39 Jaksot
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Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive
Julkaistiin: 30.12.2024 -
Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?
Julkaistiin: 29.11.2023 -
Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity
Julkaistiin: 23.7.2023 -
Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics
Julkaistiin: 11.10.2022 -
The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?
Julkaistiin: 20.5.2022 -
“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry
Julkaistiin: 20.2.2022 -
Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry
Julkaistiin: 17.11.2021 -
Rationalism versus empiricism
Julkaistiin: 18.9.2021 -
Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe
Julkaistiin: 10.7.2021 -
Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry
Julkaistiin: 10.5.2021 -
“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry
Julkaistiin: 10.3.2021 -
Why construct?
Julkaistiin: 20.1.2021 -
Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4
Julkaistiin: 10.12.2020 -
That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions
Julkaistiin: 3.11.2020 -
What makes a good axiom?
Julkaistiin: 4.10.2020 -
Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic
Julkaistiin: 8.9.2020 -
Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem
Julkaistiin: 30.7.2020 -
Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry
Julkaistiin: 21.6.2020 -
First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry
Julkaistiin: 15.5.2020 -
Societal role of geometry in early civilisations
Julkaistiin: 29.3.2020
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.