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Opinionated History of Mathematics

40 avsnitt • Längd: 40 min • Oregelbundet

Historia • Matematik • Vetenskap

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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Death of Archimedes

15 juli | 26 min

Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive

30 december 2024 | 57 min

Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?

29 november 2023 | 87 min

Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity

23 juli 2023 | 77 min

Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics

11 oktober 2022 | 52 min

The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?

20 maj 2022 | 32 min

“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry

20 februari 2022 | 31 min

Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry

17 november 2021 | 30 min

Rationalism versus empiricism

18 september 2021 | 44 min

Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe

10 juli 2021 | 34 min

Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry

10 maj 2021 | 49 min

“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry

10 mars 2021 | 51 min

Why construct?

20 januari 2021 | 78 min

Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4

10 december 2020 | 41 min

That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions

3 november 2020 | 44 min

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