Opinionated History of Mathematics
Un pódcast de Intellectual Mathematics
39 Episodo
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Why the Greeks?
Publicado: 16/2/2020 -
The mathematicians’ view of Galileo
Publicado: 11/1/2020 -
Historiography of Galileo’s relation to antiquity and middle ages
Publicado: 3/12/2019 -
More things Galileo didn’t do first
Publicado: 28/10/2019 -
Galileo was the first to … what exactly?
Publicado: 21/9/2019 -
Galileo and the Church
Publicado: 15/8/2019 -
Galileo’s theory of comets is hot air
Publicado: 7/7/2019 -
Phases of Venus
Publicado: 2/6/2019 -
Blemished sun
Publicado: 4/5/2019 -
The telescope
Publicado: 6/4/2019 -
Heliocentrism before the telescope
Publicado: 9/3/2019 -
Heliocentrism in antiquity
Publicado: 11/2/2019 -
Galileo’s theory of tides
Publicado: 18/1/2019 -
Why Galileo is like Nostradamus
Publicado: 27/12/2018 -
Galileo’s errors on projectile motion and inertia
Publicado: 10/12/2018 -
The case against Galileo on the law of fall
Publicado: 29/11/2018 -
Galilean science in antiquity?
Publicado: 21/11/2018 -
Mathematics versus philosophy, then and now
Publicado: 21/11/2018 -
Galileo bad, Archimedes good
Publicado: 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.