Episode 23 - Aristarchus of Samos - Got The Measure of Things
This week we look at a man who looked at the moon whilst it looked at the sun and thought: "Gosh, that looks far away".
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But how far away is the sun, really. Or the better question would be: "How far away are we?"
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Let's find out as we measure the life and works of Aristarchus of Samos. The second greatest Samos-ian that we have covered so far.
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The music was:Â
"Danse Macabre - Finale"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Episode 22 - Injectives - Mikhail Koroteev on Instructional Puzzles
This episode has been a real favourite of mine to record - I sit down with the co-creator of www.euclidea.xyz to ask all of my puzzling questions on how the game was developed, the inspiration behind the puzzles and the role of Euclidean geometry in today's world.Â
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Further reading for some of the referenced papers:Â
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02562
https://www.cut-the-knot.org/triangle/TriangleFromBisectors.shtml
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The music was:
"Danse Macabre - Finale"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Episode 21 - Euclid - In His Element
This week: The big cheese. It's Euclid time. Come with me on a journey through his optics, astronomy and or course the elements - a week of exceptionally good maths.
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The Music was:
"Danse Macabre - Finale"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Episode 20 - Autolycus of Pitane - Got the Ball Rolling
This week we look up to one of the most influential stargazers of all time. Autolycus, the very first non-Euclidean geometer, even before Euclid hit the scene.Â
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The music is:Â
"Danse Macabre - Finale"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Episode 19 - Aristotle - On The Philosopher
This week we have a big one! One of the greats, if not the greatest, philosophers of all time: Aristotle. We will explore how this philosopher-scientist also wears a heavy crown of mathematics, despite never publishing a work of maths. Tune in for discussions on logic, set theory, combinatorics and the ever interesting syllogism.
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The music:
"Danse Macabre - Finale"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Where we explore the historical figures that count. An in-depth look at the history of mathematics, in chronological order, looking at the people, the theories, the ideas - with as fewer gaps as possible. Each episode we focus in on a single character or contribution to the history of maths and explore why it is significant, and how it evolved.