Opinionated History of Mathematics
En podcast af Intellectual Mathematics
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38 Episoder
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Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?
Udgivet: 29.11.2023 -
Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity
Udgivet: 23.7.2023 -
Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics
Udgivet: 11.10.2022 -
The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?
Udgivet: 20.5.2022 -
“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry
Udgivet: 20.2.2022 -
Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry
Udgivet: 17.11.2021 -
Rationalism versus empiricism
Udgivet: 18.9.2021 -
Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe
Udgivet: 10.7.2021 -
Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry
Udgivet: 10.5.2021 -
“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry
Udgivet: 10.3.2021 -
Why construct?
Udgivet: 20.1.2021 -
Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4
Udgivet: 10.12.2020 -
That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions
Udgivet: 3.11.2020 -
What makes a good axiom?
Udgivet: 4.10.2020 -
Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic
Udgivet: 8.9.2020 -
Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem
Udgivet: 30.7.2020 -
Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry
Udgivet: 21.6.2020 -
First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry
Udgivet: 15.5.2020 -
Societal role of geometry in early civilisations
Udgivet: 29.3.2020 -
Why the Greeks?
Udgivet: 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.