Opinionated History of Mathematics
Een podcast door Intellectual Mathematics
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Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?
Gepubliceerd: 29-11-2023 -
Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity
Gepubliceerd: 23-7-2023 -
Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics
Gepubliceerd: 11-10-2022 -
The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?
Gepubliceerd: 20-5-2022 -
“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry
Gepubliceerd: 20-2-2022 -
Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry
Gepubliceerd: 17-11-2021 -
Rationalism versus empiricism
Gepubliceerd: 18-9-2021 -
Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe
Gepubliceerd: 10-7-2021 -
Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry
Gepubliceerd: 10-5-2021 -
“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry
Gepubliceerd: 10-3-2021 -
Why construct?
Gepubliceerd: 20-1-2021 -
Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4
Gepubliceerd: 10-12-2020 -
That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions
Gepubliceerd: 3-11-2020 -
What makes a good axiom?
Gepubliceerd: 4-10-2020 -
Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic
Gepubliceerd: 8-9-2020 -
Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem
Gepubliceerd: 30-7-2020 -
Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry
Gepubliceerd: 21-6-2020 -
First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry
Gepubliceerd: 15-5-2020 -
Societal role of geometry in early civilisations
Gepubliceerd: 29-3-2020 -
Why the Greeks?
Gepubliceerd: 16-2-2020
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.