Opinionated History of Mathematics

40 Episodes

1. Societal role of geometry in early civilisations

   Published: 3/29/2020
2. Why the Greeks?

   Published: 2/16/2020
3. The mathematicians’ view of Galileo

   Published: 1/11/2020
4. Historiography of Galileo’s relation to antiquity and middle ages

   Published: 12/3/2019
5. More things Galileo didn’t do first

   Published: 10/28/2019
6. Galileo was the first to … what exactly?

   Published: 9/21/2019
7. Galileo and the Church

   Published: 8/15/2019
8. Galileo’s theory of comets is hot air

   Published: 7/7/2019
9. Phases of Venus

   Published: 6/2/2019
10. Blemished sun

    Published: 5/4/2019
11. The telescope

    Published: 4/6/2019
12. Heliocentrism before the telescope

    Published: 3/9/2019
13. Heliocentrism in antiquity

    Published: 2/11/2019
14. Galileo’s theory of tides

    Published: 1/18/2019
15. Why Galileo is like Nostradamus

    Published: 12/27/2018
16. Galileo’s errors on projectile motion and inertia

    Published: 12/10/2018
17. The case against Galileo on the law of fall

    Published: 11/29/2018
18. Galilean science in antiquity?

    Published: 11/21/2018
19. Mathematics versus philosophy, then and now

    Published: 11/21/2018
20. Galileo bad, Archimedes good

    Published: 11/21/2018