Opinionated History of Mathematics

By Intellectual Mathematics

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 Sep 21, 2022

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 Jul 30, 2022
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History of mathematics research with iconoclastic madcap twists

Episode Date
Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?
Nov 29, 2023
Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity
Jul 23, 2023
Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics
Oct 11, 2022
The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?
May 20, 2022
“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry
Feb 20, 2022
Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry
Nov 17, 2021
Rationalism versus empiricism
Sep 18, 2021
Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe
Jul 10, 2021
Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry
May 10, 2021
“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry
Mar 10, 2021
Why construct?
Jan 20, 2021
Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4
Dec 10, 2020
That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions
Nov 03, 2020
What makes a good axiom?
Oct 04, 2020
Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic
Sep 08, 2020
Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem
Jul 30, 2020
Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry
Jun 21, 2020
First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry
May 15, 2020
Societal role of geometry in early civilisations
Mar 29, 2020
Why the Greeks?
Feb 16, 2020
The mathematicians’ view of Galileo
Jan 11, 2020
Historiography of Galileo’s relation to antiquity and middle ages
Dec 03, 2019
More things Galileo didn’t do first
Oct 28, 2019
Galileo was the first to … what exactly?
Sep 21, 2019
Galileo and the Church
Aug 15, 2019
Galileo’s theory of comets is hot air
Jul 07, 2019
Phases of Venus
Jun 02, 2019
Blemished sun
May 04, 2019
The telescope
Apr 06, 2019
Heliocentrism before the telescope
Mar 09, 2019
Heliocentrism in antiquity
Feb 11, 2019
Galileo’s theory of tides
Jan 18, 2019
Why Galileo is like Nostradamus
Dec 27, 2018
Galileo’s errors on projectile motion and inertia
Dec 10, 2018
The case against Galileo on the law of fall
Nov 29, 2018
Galilean science in antiquity?
Nov 21, 2018
Mathematics versus philosophy, then and now
Nov 21, 2018
Galileo bad, Archimedes good
Nov 21, 2018