Opinionated History of Mathematics
A podcast by Intellectual Mathematics
40 Episoade
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Death of Archimedes
Publicat: 15.07.2025 -
Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive
Publicat: 30.12.2024 -
Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?
Publicat: 29.11.2023 -
Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity
Publicat: 23.07.2023 -
Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics
Publicat: 11.10.2022 -
The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?
Publicat: 20.05.2022 -
“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry
Publicat: 20.02.2022 -
Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry
Publicat: 17.11.2021 -
Rationalism versus empiricism
Publicat: 18.09.2021 -
Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe
Publicat: 10.07.2021 -
Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry
Publicat: 10.05.2021 -
“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry
Publicat: 10.03.2021 -
Why construct?
Publicat: 20.01.2021 -
Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4
Publicat: 10.12.2020 -
That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions
Publicat: 03.11.2020 -
What makes a good axiom?
Publicat: 04.10.2020 -
Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic
Publicat: 08.09.2020 -
Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem
Publicat: 30.07.2020 -
Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry
Publicat: 21.06.2020 -
First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry
Publicat: 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.
