Opinionated History of Mathematics

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Mathematics #2

History of mathematics research with iconoclastic madcap twists

Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive
Dec 30, 2024 – 56:39
Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?
Nov 29, 2023 – 1:27:04
Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity
Jul 23, 2023 – 1:16:38
Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics
Oct 11, 2022 – 52:04
The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?
May 20, 2022 – 32:22
“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry
Feb 20, 2022 – 30:40
Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry
Nov 17, 2021 – 30:00
Rationalism versus empiricism
Sep 18, 2021 – 43:50
Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe
Jul 10, 2021 – 33:47
Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry
May 10, 2021 – 49:29
“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry
Mar 10, 2021 – 51:12
Why construct?
Jan 20, 2021 – 1:18:01
Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4
Dec 10, 2020 – 41:00
That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions
Nov 3, 2020 – 43:33
What makes a good axiom?
Oct 4, 2020 – 35:21
Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic
Sep 8, 2020 – 35:50
Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem
Jul 30, 2020 – 41:37
Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry
Jun 21, 2020 – 40:10
First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry
May 15, 2020 – 42:27
Societal role of geometry in early civilisations
Mar 29, 2020 – 36:01
Why the Greeks?
Feb 16, 2020 – 40:42
The mathematicians’ view of Galileo
Jan 11, 2020 – 36:51
Historiography of Galileo’s relation to antiquity and middle ages
Dec 3, 2019 – 35:09
More things Galileo didn’t do first
Oct 28, 2019 – 53:28
Galileo was the first to … what exactly?
Sep 21, 2019 – 44:01
Galileo and the Church
Aug 15, 2019 – 40:27
Galileo’s theory of comets is hot air
Jul 7, 2019 – 36:16
Phases of Venus
Jun 2, 2019 – 31:01
Blemished sun
May 4, 2019 – 32:49
The telescope
Apr 6, 2019 – 31:13
Heliocentrism before the telescope
Mar 9, 2019 – 31:27
Heliocentrism in antiquity
Feb 11, 2019 – 31:36
Galileo’s theory of tides
Jan 18, 2019 – 22:58
Why Galileo is like Nostradamus
Dec 27, 2018 – 28:17
Galileo’s errors on projectile motion and inertia
Dec 10, 2018 – 26:52
The case against Galileo on the law of fall
Nov 29, 2018 – 21:43
Galilean science in antiquity?
Nov 21, 2018 – 23:26
Mathematics versus philosophy, then and now
Nov 21, 2018 – 19:21
Galileo bad, Archimedes good
Nov 21, 2018 – 16:36