Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover this podcast and so much more

    Podcasts are free to enjoy without a subscription. We also offer ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more for just $11.99/month.

    Opinionated History of Mathematics

    Opinionated History of Mathematics

    Opinionated History of Mathematics

    ratings:
    Length:
    23 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    History of mathematics research with iconoclastic madcap twists
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 23 episodes

    Title

    Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?

    Copernicus’s planetary models contain elements also found in the works of late medieval...

    87 minutes
    		Nov 29, 2023

    Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity

    Einstein’s theory of special relativity defines time and space operationally, that is t...

    76 minutes
    		Jul 23, 2023

    Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics

    Reviel Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics contains a number of factual errors, bot...

    52 minutes
    		Oct 11, 2022

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

    Geometry might be innate in the same way as language. There are many languages, each of...

    32 minutes
    		May 20, 2022

    Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4

    The etymology of the term “postulate” suggests that Euclid’s axioms were once questione...

    41 minutes
    		Dec 10, 2020

    Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem

    The Pythagorean Theorem might have been used in antiquity to build the pyramids, dig tu...

    41 minutes
    		Jul 30, 2020

    The mathematicians’ view of Galileo

    What did 17th-century mathematicians such as Newton and Huygens think of Galileo? Not v...

    36 minutes
    		Jan 11, 2020

    Historiography of Galileo’s relation to antiquity and middle ages

    Our picture of Greek antiquity is distorted. Only a fraction of the masterpieces of ant...

    35 minutes
    		Dec 03, 2019

    Galileo was the first to … what exactly?

    Was Galileo “the father of modern science” because he was the first to unite mathematic...

    44 minutes
    		Sep 21, 2019

    Galileo and the Church

    Galileo’s sentencing by the Inquisition was avoidable. The Church had no interest in pr...

    40 minutes
    		Aug 15, 2019