Opinionated History of Mathematics

39 Episoder

1. Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive

   Publisert: 30.12.2024
2. Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?

   Publisert: 29.11.2023
3. Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity

   Publisert: 23.7.2023
4. Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics

   Publisert: 11.10.2022
5. The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?

   Publisert: 20.5.2022
6. “Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry

   Publisert: 20.2.2022
7. Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry

   Publisert: 17.11.2021
8. Rationalism versus empiricism

   Publisert: 18.9.2021
9. Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe

   Publisert: 10.7.2021
10. Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry

    Publisert: 10.5.2021
11. “Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry

    Publisert: 10.3.2021
12. Why construct?

    Publisert: 20.1.2021
13. Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4

    Publisert: 10.12.2020
14. That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions

    Publisert: 3.11.2020
15. What makes a good axiom?

    Publisert: 4.10.2020
16. Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic

    Publisert: 8.9.2020
17. Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem

    Publisert: 30.7.2020
18. Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry

    Publisert: 21.6.2020
19. First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry

    Publisert: 15.5.2020
20. Societal role of geometry in early civilisations

    Publisert: 29.3.2020