Opinionated History of Mathematics

39 Episodes

1. Why the Greeks?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Published: 6/2/2019
9. Blemished sun

   Published: 5/4/2019
10. The telescope

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 11/21/2018