39 Episoder

  1. Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive

    Udgivet: 30.12.2024
  2. Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?

    Udgivet: 29.11.2023
  3. Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity

    Udgivet: 23.7.2023
  4. Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics

    Udgivet: 11.10.2022
  5. The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?

    Udgivet: 20.5.2022
  6. “Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry

    Udgivet: 20.2.2022
  7. Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry

    Udgivet: 17.11.2021
  8. Rationalism versus empiricism

    Udgivet: 18.9.2021
  9. Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe

    Udgivet: 10.7.2021
  10. Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry

    Udgivet: 10.5.2021
  11. “Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry

    Udgivet: 10.3.2021
  12. Why construct?

    Udgivet: 20.1.2021
  13. Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4

    Udgivet: 10.12.2020
  14. That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions

    Udgivet: 3.11.2020
  15. What makes a good axiom?

    Udgivet: 4.10.2020
  16. Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic

    Udgivet: 8.9.2020
  17. Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem

    Udgivet: 30.7.2020
  18. Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry

    Udgivet: 21.6.2020
  19. First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry

    Udgivet: 15.5.2020
  20. Societal role of geometry in early civilisations

    Udgivet: 29.3.2020

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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.

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