Opinionated History of Mathematics
En podkast av Intellectual Mathematics
39 Episoder
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Why the Greeks?
Publisert: 16.2.2020 -
The mathematicians’ view of Galileo
Publisert: 11.1.2020 -
Historiography of Galileo’s relation to antiquity and middle ages
Publisert: 3.12.2019 -
More things Galileo didn’t do first
Publisert: 28.10.2019 -
Galileo was the first to … what exactly?
Publisert: 21.9.2019 -
Galileo and the Church
Publisert: 15.8.2019 -
Galileo’s theory of comets is hot air
Publisert: 7.7.2019 -
Phases of Venus
Publisert: 2.6.2019 -
Blemished sun
Publisert: 4.5.2019 -
The telescope
Publisert: 6.4.2019 -
Heliocentrism before the telescope
Publisert: 9.3.2019 -
Heliocentrism in antiquity
Publisert: 11.2.2019 -
Galileo’s theory of tides
Publisert: 18.1.2019 -
Why Galileo is like Nostradamus
Publisert: 27.12.2018 -
Galileo’s errors on projectile motion and inertia
Publisert: 10.12.2018 -
The case against Galileo on the law of fall
Publisert: 29.11.2018 -
Galilean science in antiquity?
Publisert: 21.11.2018 -
Mathematics versus philosophy, then and now
Publisert: 21.11.2018 -
Galileo bad, Archimedes good
Publisert: 21.11.2018
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.