Opinionated History of Mathematics

40 Episodio

1. Death of Archimedes

   Pubblicato: 15/07/2025
2. Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive

   Pubblicato: 30/12/2024
3. Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?

   Pubblicato: 29/11/2023
4. Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity

   Pubblicato: 23/07/2023
5. Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics

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

   Pubblicato: 20/05/2022
7. “Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry

   Pubblicato: 20/02/2022
8. Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry

   Pubblicato: 17/11/2021
9. Rationalism versus empiricism

   Pubblicato: 18/09/2021
10. Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe

    Pubblicato: 10/07/2021
11. Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry

    Pubblicato: 10/05/2021
12. “Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry

    Pubblicato: 10/03/2021
13. Why construct?

    Pubblicato: 20/01/2021
14. Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4

    Pubblicato: 10/12/2020
15. That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions

    Pubblicato: 03/11/2020
16. What makes a good axiom?

    Pubblicato: 04/10/2020
17. Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic

    Pubblicato: 08/09/2020
18. Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem

    Pubblicato: 30/07/2020
19. Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry

    Pubblicato: 21/06/2020
20. First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry

    Pubblicato: 15/05/2020