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Tag: geometry

Engines Podcast

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

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on February 4, 2021 · 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 1982: Dürer’s Roman Letters

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 15, 2021 · Episode: 1982 Albrecht Dürer and Times Roman Letters: Art that endured. Today, let us write in CAPITAL LETTERS.

Tags Albrecht Dürer artists books descriptive geometry design drafting engineering drawing engraving etching fonts geometry printing Times Roman letters typefaces

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1919: Möbius

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 21, 2020 · Episode: 1919 Möbius and his strip: an abstract spur to applied mathematics. Today, Möbius’ strip.

Tags August Ferdinand Mobius Bessel Dirichlet four color problem Gauss geometry germany Jacobi phrenology pure and applied mathematics topology

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.

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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.

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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.

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