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Opinionated History of Mathematics
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The telescope

31 min•6 april 2019
The telescope offered a shortcut to stardom for Galileo. We offer some fun cynical twists on the standard story. Transcript The year is 1609. What a time to be alive. In London you can go to the theatre and catch the fresh new play Macbeth. In Amsterdam you can make a quick buck trading in … Continue reading The telescope

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Death of Archimedes
•26 min
Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive
•57 min
Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?
•1 tim 27 min
Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity
•1 tim 17 min
Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics
•52 min
The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?
•32 min
“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry
•31 min
Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry
•30 min
Rationalism versus empiricism
•44 min
Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe
•34 min

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