Opinionated History of Mathematics

39 Episodo

1. Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive

   Publicado: 30/12/2024
2. Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?

   Publicado: 29/11/2023
3. Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity

   Publicado: 23/7/2023
4. Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics

   Publicado: 11/10/2022
5. The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?

   Publicado: 20/5/2022
6. “Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry

   Publicado: 20/2/2022
7. Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry

   Publicado: 17/11/2021
8. Rationalism versus empiricism

   Publicado: 18/9/2021
9. Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe

   Publicado: 10/7/2021
10. Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry

    Publicado: 10/5/2021
11. “Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry

    Publicado: 10/3/2021
12. Why construct?

    Publicado: 20/1/2021
13. Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4

    Publicado: 10/12/2020
14. That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions

    Publicado: 3/11/2020
15. What makes a good axiom?

    Publicado: 4/10/2020
16. Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic

    Publicado: 8/9/2020
17. Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem

    Publicado: 30/7/2020
18. Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry

    Publicado: 21/6/2020
19. First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry

    Publicado: 15/5/2020
20. Societal role of geometry in early civilisations

    Publicado: 29/3/2020