Skip to content
Production Staging
 
Schedules
TV 8 Guide
News 88.7
Classical
Mixtape
Listen Live
Donate
  • News
    • Next Question
    • Houston Matters
    • Politics
    • News Main
  • Arts/Culture
    • Back
    • Arts & Culture Main
    • Country Covers
    • VuHaus
    • Classical
    • Mixtape
    • Skyline Sessions
    • Encore Houston
    • Houston Symphony Broadcasts
    • Music Stories
  • Education
    • Back
    • For Grown Ups
    • For Kids
    • Math in a Flash
    • Spelling Bee
    • Writers Contest
  • Topics
    • Back
    • News
      • Texas Elections 2018
      • In-Depth
      • Hurricane Harvey
      • Arts & Culture
      • Business
      • Local
      • Education News
      • Energy & Environment
      • Health & Science
      • Immigration
      • Politics
      • Transportation
    • Features
      • HPM Harvey Heroes
      • Texas Legislature
      • Houston Weather
      • Bauer Business Focus
      • All News Series >>
    • Arts & Culture
      • Classical Music
      • Music
      • Opera & Musical Theater
      • Dance
      • Visual Art
      • Literature
        • Voices and Verses: A Poem-A-Day Series
      • Theatre & Film
      • Food
    • Features
      • Houston Symphony
      • National Chamber Music Month
  • Stations
    • Back
    • TV 8 KUHT
      • Watch TV 8 Video
      • Watch 24/7 PBS Kids
      • Ways to Watch
      • Popular Shows
        • Antiques Roadshow
        • Arts InSight
        • Nature
        • NOVA
        • All TV 8 Shows
    • News 88.7
      • Listen Live
      • Ways to Listen
      • Smart Speakers
      • Popular Shows
        • All Things Considered
        • Houston Matters
        • Morning Edition
        • Texas Standard
        • Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me
        • All News 88.7 Shows
    • Classical
      • Listen Live
      • Ways to Listen
      • Smart Speakers
      • Popular Shows
        • Houston Symphony Broadcasts
        • Opera Music
        • Performance Today
        • All Classical Shows
    • Mixtape
      • Listen Live
      • Ways to Listen
      • Smart Speakers
      • Popular Shows
        • XPoNential Radio
  • Programs
    • Back
    • News
      • Next Question
      • Red, White and Blue
      • Houston Matters
      • Texas Standard
      • Bauer Business Focus
    • Arts & Culture
      • Country Covers
      • Skyline Sessions
      • Mockingbird & Armadillo
      • Unwrap Your Candies Now
      • Arts InSight
      • Houston Symphony Broadcasts
      • Manor of Speaking
      • Opera Music
    • Features
      • Health Matters
      • Arte Público Author of the Month
      • Briefcase
      • Engines of Our Ingenuity
      • Generations on the Rise
      • UH Moment
    • Digital/Podcasts
      • Country Covers
      • Skyline Sessions
      • Mockingbird & Armadillo
      • Unwrap Your Candies Now
      • Imaginarium
      • Encore Houston
      • Engines of Our Ingenuity
      • Party Politics
      • Press Play
      • All Podcasts >>
    • Popular National Shows
      • All Things Considered
      • Antiques Roadshow
      • Downton Abbey
      • Morning Edition
      • Nature
      • NOVA
      • Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
  • Support
    • Back
    • For the Love of Houston
    • Support HPM
    • Passport Help
    • Young Leaders Council
    • Corporate Support
    • Update Payment Method
  • Donate
  • Passport
  • UH
    • Back
    • Main
    • About UH
    • Academics
    • Admissions
    • Student Life
    • Research
    • Arts
    • Athletics
    • News & Events
  • About
  • Contact Us

Tag: geometry

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1741: The Witch of Agnesi

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 13, 2019 · Episode: 1741 The saintly Witch of Agnesi.  Today, we meet the Witch of Agnesi.

Tags analytic geometry Bologna calculus geometry geriatrics italy Maria Agnesi mathematics Milano religion service women

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3182: Magical Shapes

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on August 16, 2018 · Episode: 3182 Looking at Magical Shapes.  Today, it’s all in how you look at it.

Tags geometry Klein bottle mathematics Möbius strip projections

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3179: Pierre Wantzel

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on July 26, 2018 · Episode: 3179 Pierre Wantzel Makes History.  Today, fame that wasn’t.

Tags Andrew Wiles compass fermat geometry greece math math problems straightedge

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1530: The Medieval Mason

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 25, 2018 · Episode: 1530 Medieval masons and the mischief of success.  Today, we meet a medieval mason.  

Tags architecture geometry Gothic cathedrals labyrinths Notre Dame Strasbourg

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2762: Aunt Sammy

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on June 5, 2018 · Episode: 2762 Mathematics and the Early 1900s Progressive Education Movement.  Today, Uncle Sam’s better half. 

Tags algebra Columbia Teachers College geometry mathematics education National Defense Education Act progressive education Sputnik William Kilpatrick

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2760: No Math

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on May 29, 2018 · Episode: 2760 Mathematics and the Early 1900s Progressive Education Movement.  Today, doing away with math.

Tags algebra Columbia Teachers College geometry mathematics education National Defense Education Act progressive education Sputnik William Kilpatrick

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1483: Gibbs and Visualization

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 21, 2018 · Episode: 1483 In which J. Willard Gibbs pictures gear teeth.  Today, a glimpse into the mind of J. Willard Gibbs.  

Tags Amistad geometry mechanics science visualization Yale

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1457: Eratosthenes’s Diameter of the Earth

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 17, 2018 · Episode: 1457 Eratosthenes’s 2200 year old calculation of Earth’s size.  Today, we measure the earth.  

Tags alexandria astronomy Aswan columbus egypt geometry Magellan navigation Ptolemy trigonometry

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2652: Descartes The Scientist

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on September 26, 2017 · Episode: 2652 Descartes, the Scientist.  Today, an extended postscript.

Tags analytic geometry Aristotelianism Cartesian coordinates cogito ergo sum descartes Dioptrics Discourse Discourse on the Method geometry I think therefore I am Meditations Meditations on First Philosophy metaphysics meteorology optics scientific revolution

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3111: Temple Geometry

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on March 2, 2017 · Episode: 3111 Temple Geometry: Sacred Mathematics in Japan’s Edo Period.  Today, a very different expression of religion.

Tags calculus Edo period geometry japan plane geometry sangaku temple geometry

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2556: Hilbert and Euclid’s Elelments

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on February 28, 2017 · Episode: 2556 Euclid’s Elements, David Hilbert, and modern notions of mathematical abstraction.  Today, making a point.

Tags abstraction definition Euclid geometry Hilbert lines mathematics points proposition the Elements

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1153: Grosseteste and Bacon

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on April 25, 2016 · 1153 Grosseteste, Bacon, and the rise of realism Today, Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, and cyberspace.

Tags art assisi cyberspace francis geometry of reality renaissance st threedimensions virtual

Support Comes From

Related

Anat Ronen Selfie Mural

Anat Ronen: A Street Art ‘Urban Legend’

Tuesday’s Show: Labor Leader Dolores Huerta, And A Boat Tour Of Buffalo Bayou’s East Sector (Dec. 10, 2019)

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1741: The Witch of Agnesi

WATCH: Tee-riffic Silk Screening | Mockingbird and Armadillo

Most Viewed

  • Turner Leads Buzbee By More Than 20 Points In Runoff Race, HPM-KHOU 11 Poll Finds

  • Gentrification A Big Concern For Some, As Houston Builds Its Innovation District

  • Election Preview: These Are The Races On Houston’s 2019 Runoff Ballot

  • What Is The “Boyfriend Loophole?” Houston’s Police Chief Wants Lawmakers To Prevent Abusive Dating Partners From Buying Guns.

  • ¡Sí Se Puede! Houston Celebrates Latina Civil Rights Icon Dolores Huerta

Support Comes From

Houston Public Media
  • News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Education
  • TV 8 KUHT
  • News 88.7
  • Classical
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • FCC Station Information
  • KUHF Public File
  • KUHT Public File

Houston Public Media is supported with your gifts to the Houston Public Media Foundation and is licensed to the University of Houston

Copyright © 2019 | Privacy Policy