Opinionated History of Mathematics

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History of mathematics research with iconoclastic madcap twists

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Death of Archimedes contributed by Lukas · Jul 15, 2025
Torricelli’s trumpet is not counterintuitive contributed by Lukas · Dec 30, 2024
Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers? contributed by Lukas · Nov 29, 2023
Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity contributed by Lukas · Jul 23, 2023
Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics contributed by Lukas · Oct 11, 2022
The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate? contributed by Lukas · May 20, 2022
“Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry contributed by Lukas · Feb 20, 2022
Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry contributed by Lukas · Nov 17, 2021
Rationalism versus empiricism contributed by Lukas · Sep 18, 2021
Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe contributed by Lukas · Jul 10, 2021
Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry contributed by Lukas · May 10, 2021
“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry contributed by Lukas · Mar 10, 2021
Why construct? contributed by Lukas · Jan 20, 2021
Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4 contributed by Lukas · Dec 10, 2020
That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions contributed by Lukas · Nov 3, 2020
What makes a good axiom? contributed by Lukas · Oct 4, 2020
Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic contributed by Lukas · Sep 8, 2020
Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem contributed by Lukas · Jul 30, 2020
Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry contributed by Lukas · Jun 21, 2020
First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry contributed by Lukas · May 15, 2020
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