Opinionated History of Mathematics

39 Avsnitt

1. Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive

   Publicerades: 2024-12-30
2. Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?

   Publicerades: 2023-11-29
3. Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity

   Publicerades: 2023-07-23
4. Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics

   Publicerades: 2022-10-11
5. The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?

   Publicerades: 2022-05-20
6. “Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry

   Publicerades: 2022-02-20
7. Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry

   Publicerades: 2021-11-17
8. Rationalism versus empiricism

   Publicerades: 2021-09-18
9. Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe

   Publicerades: 2021-07-10
10. Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry

    Publicerades: 2021-05-10
11. “Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry

    Publicerades: 2021-03-10
12. Why construct?

    Publicerades: 2021-01-20
13. Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4

    Publicerades: 2020-12-10
14. That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions

    Publicerades: 2020-11-03
15. What makes a good axiom?

    Publicerades: 2020-10-04
16. Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic

    Publicerades: 2020-09-08
17. Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem

    Publicerades: 2020-07-30
18. Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry

    Publicerades: 2020-06-21
19. First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry

    Publicerades: 2020-05-15
20. Societal role of geometry in early civilisations

    Publicerades: 2020-03-29