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Opinionated History of Mathematics

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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43 épisodes

Nov 21, 2018•—

Galileo bad, Archimedes good

Nov 21, 2018•—

Galileo bad, Archimedes good

Nov 21, 2018•—

Mathematics versus philosophy, then and now

Nov 21, 2018•—

Mathematics versus philosophy, then and now

Nov 21, 2018•—

Galilean science in antiquity?

Nov 21, 2018•—

Galilean science in antiquity?

Nov 29, 2018•—

The case against Galileo on the law of fall

Dec 10, 2018•—

Galileo’s errors on projectile motion and inertia

Dec 27, 2018•—

Why Galileo is like Nostradamus

Jan 17, 2019•—

Galileo’s theory of tides

Feb 10, 2019•—

Heliocentrism in antiquity

Mar 9, 2019•—

Heliocentrism before the telescope

Apr 6, 2019•—

The telescope

May 4, 2019•—

Blemished sun

Jun 2, 2019•—

Phases of Venus

Jul 7, 2019•—

Galileo’s theory of comets is hot air

Aug 14, 2019•—

Galileo and the Church

Sep 21, 2019•—

Galileo was the first to … what exactly?

Oct 28, 2019•—

More things Galileo didn’t do first

Dec 3, 2019•—

Historiography of Galileo’s relation to antiquity and middle ages

Jan 11, 2020•—

The mathematicians’ view of Galileo

Feb 16, 2020•—

Why the Greeks?

Mar 29, 2020•—

Societal role of geometry in early civilisations

May 15, 2020•—

First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry

Jun 21, 2020•—

Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry

Jul 30, 2020•—

Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem

Sep 8, 2020•—

Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic

Oct 4, 2020•—

What makes a good axiom?

Nov 3, 2020•—

That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions

Dec 10, 2020•—

Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4

Jan 20, 2021•—

Why construct?

Mar 10, 2021•—

“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry

May 10, 2021•—

Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry

Jul 10, 2021•—

Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe

Sep 18, 2021•—

Rationalism versus empiricism

Nov 17, 2021•—

Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry

Feb 20, 2022•—

“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry

May 20, 2022•—

The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?

Oct 11, 2022•—

Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics

Jul 23, 2023•—

Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity

Nov 29, 2023•—

Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?

Dec 30, 2024•—

Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive

Jul 15, 2025•—

Opinionated History of Mathematics

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