Opinionated History of Mathematics

A Mathematics podcast by Intellectual Mathematics

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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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Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?
Published: November 29, 2023
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Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity
Published: July 23, 2023
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Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics
Published: October 11, 2022
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The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?
Published: May 20, 2022
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“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry
Published: February 20, 2022
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Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry
Published: November 17, 2021
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Rationalism versus empiricism
Published: September 18, 2021
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Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe
Published: July 10, 2021
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Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry
Published: May 10, 2021
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“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry
Published: March 10, 2021
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