History of mathematics research with iconoclastic madcap twists
Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?
Nov. 29, 2023
1:27:04
Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity
July 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
Sept. 18, 2021
43:50
Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe
July 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
March 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
Sept. 8, 2020
35:50
Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem
July 30, 2020
41:37
Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry
June 21, 2020
40:10
First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry
May 15, 2020
42:27
Societal role of geometry in early civilisations
March 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?
Sept. 21, 2019
44:01
Galileo and the Church
Aug. 15, 2019
40:27
Galileo’s theory of comets is hot air
July 7, 2019
36:16
Phases of Venus
June 2, 2019
31:01
Blemished sun
May 4, 2019
32:49
The telescope
April 6, 2019
31:13
Heliocentrism before the telescope
March 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
19:21
Galileo bad, Archimedes good
16:36
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