Opinionated History of Mathematics
A podcast by Intellectual Mathematics
40 Episoade
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Societal role of geometry in early civilisations
Publicat: 29.03.2020 -
Why the Greeks?
Publicat: 16.02.2020 -
The mathematicians’ view of Galileo
Publicat: 11.01.2020 -
Historiography of Galileo’s relation to antiquity and middle ages
Publicat: 03.12.2019 -
More things Galileo didn’t do first
Publicat: 28.10.2019 -
Galileo was the first to … what exactly?
Publicat: 21.09.2019 -
Galileo and the Church
Publicat: 15.08.2019 -
Galileo’s theory of comets is hot air
Publicat: 07.07.2019 -
Phases of Venus
Publicat: 02.06.2019 -
Blemished sun
Publicat: 04.05.2019 -
The telescope
Publicat: 06.04.2019 -
Heliocentrism before the telescope
Publicat: 09.03.2019 -
Heliocentrism in antiquity
Publicat: 11.02.2019 -
Galileo’s theory of tides
Publicat: 18.01.2019 -
Why Galileo is like Nostradamus
Publicat: 27.12.2018 -
Galileo’s errors on projectile motion and inertia
Publicat: 10.12.2018 -
The case against Galileo on the law of fall
Publicat: 29.11.2018 -
Galilean science in antiquity?
Publicat: 21.11.2018 -
Mathematics versus philosophy, then and now
Publicat: 21.11.2018 -
Galileo bad, Archimedes good
Publicat: 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.
