Opinionated History of Mathematics

40 Folgen

1. Societal role of geometry in early civilisations

   Vom: 29.3.2020
2. Why the Greeks?

   Vom: 16.2.2020
3. The mathematicians’ view of Galileo

   Vom: 11.1.2020
4. Historiography of Galileo’s relation to antiquity and middle ages

   Vom: 3.12.2019
5. More things Galileo didn’t do first

   Vom: 28.10.2019
6. Galileo was the first to … what exactly?

   Vom: 21.9.2019
7. Galileo and the Church

   Vom: 15.8.2019
8. Galileo’s theory of comets is hot air

   Vom: 7.7.2019
9. Phases of Venus

   Vom: 2.6.2019
10. Blemished sun

    Vom: 4.5.2019
11. The telescope

    Vom: 6.4.2019
12. Heliocentrism before the telescope

    Vom: 9.3.2019
13. Heliocentrism in antiquity

    Vom: 11.2.2019
14. Galileo’s theory of tides

    Vom: 18.1.2019
15. Why Galileo is like Nostradamus

    Vom: 27.12.2018
16. Galileo’s errors on projectile motion and inertia

    Vom: 10.12.2018
17. The case against Galileo on the law of fall

    Vom: 29.11.2018
18. Galilean science in antiquity?

    Vom: 21.11.2018
19. Mathematics versus philosophy, then and now

    Vom: 21.11.2018
20. Galileo bad, Archimedes good

    Vom: 21.11.2018